Principal Consultant: Christopher Macdonald Hewitt. I am a published professional cartographer and data analyst with over 10 years of experience using ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoDa, Python, R and SAS in a broad range of settings.
Services include:
- Accessing Canadian GIS data.
- Creating ArcGIS Online web apps.
Statistics and Data Visualization
Research using contemporary and historical Canadian census data.
– Explored demographic characteristics using 2016 census data.
– Creating GIS files for Canadian census tracts from 1966 to 1956.
– Visualize Canadian census data back to 1951 with a web dashboard.
Contemporary Human-Environment Interactions
Research on contemporary issues related to Human-Environment interactions.
– Exploring the ecological and socio-economic impacts of the October 2011 Snowstorm in New England.
– Possibility for investigating other events in the future.
– Published in Ecology & Society.
Historical Human-Environment Interactions
Research on historical topics related to Human-Environment interactions.
– Medieval warfare from a geographic perspective using geographic sources and techniques.
– Focus on the Battle of Hastings (1066) but ideas for other battles / campaigns.
My Google Scholar page here lists my articles.
Consultant Cartographer
Published maps in a number of venues on Brazil, British Columbia, Canada in 1921, Medieval England, 1930’s Germany, and Kenya.
Workshops
Exploring Canadian Geospatial Data with GeoPandas in Colab Notebooks
Python Code
Teaching
Introductory human geography
Introductory geospatial technologies / cartography
Introductory navigation / GPS use
Advanced statistics / research design
Geographic and Mapping Solutions 