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Cartographer, data visualizer, beans on toast defender. helenmakesmaps.com for tutorials

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What does AI mean for entry-level employment in geospatial? Discover how AI is reshaping entry-level employment in geospatial. Learn about AI's impact and future opportunities in the geospatial field.

What does AI mean for entry-level employment in geo? How can we benefit from the tech of today without limiting the talent of tomorrow?

Thoughts and ideas for graduates, employers & educators from someone totally unqualified to have them (me) πŸ‘‡

www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/what-do...

01.05.2025 11:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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10/10 recommend for lovers of geography & pubs, the perfect combo! 🌎🍻

01.04.2025 07:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—» Where can you see Mt. Fuji from?

Check out my tutorial for creating these types of visualisations here: helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-...

#GIS #geospatial

28.03.2025 10:33 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made both of these maps today 😁

20.03.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to run visibility analysis in QGIS Learn how to run + visualise visibility analysis in QGIS!

My content de-gating continues - and here's my latest piece: How to run visibility analysis in QGIS!

πŸ”₯ Run visibility analysis with free tools
πŸ’Έ Find awesome, high res data
🌍 Turn this into epic visualizations

www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-...

14.03.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš•πŸ—½ NYC taxi trips

Pink areas = more pickups
Blue areas = more dropoffs

Explore the interactive version πŸ‘‰ clausa.app.carto.com/map/c79de176...

09.03.2025 09:21 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Raster has just landed on the cloud and it is MASSIVE! ☁️

One of my favourite parts of my job is I get to play with - I mean, "test and quality assure" - these things, and here are some of my favourite raster experiments in CARTO so far!

More stuff πŸ‘‰ carto.com/blog/unlock-...

27.02.2025 16:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I look at my AI prompts and wonder if I even think any more

18.02.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

US open data is disappearing at a scary rate, I never normally recommend this but... Make local copies!!

14.02.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Guess I just won't map US flood risk today then. Wild that this data is just... Gone?

14.02.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’―, if only we could standardise the spelling of it πŸ˜€

10.02.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want to see a pie chart that shows % of my life trying to guess whether a date field in some data is formatted for US or everyone else.

07.02.2025 11:55 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you for calling this behaviour out!! πŸ‘‡ this is Olly, my 6kg tabby monster

25.01.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mega excited for the Geospatial Risk Summit next week in NYC! πŸ—½ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

I'll be running a "Scaling climate risk analysis with CARTO" technical workshop where we'll be doing this low-code analysis πŸ‘‡ and making this map πŸ‘‡ to use real-time weather alerts to stay up-to-date on potential claims.

23.01.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to make a firefly map with QGIS Follow this quick and easy guide to create stunning firefly maps with QGIS! 🌟

After making a massive $7.19 in 4 months (less than the $10 payout threshold), I've decided to start ungating my Medium-hosted tutorials (it's not really in the knowledge-sharing spirit anyway!) and migrate them to my website, starting with... www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-... πŸŽ†πŸ—ΊοΈ

17.01.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!!! I'm not quite sure what that means yet but it for sure sounds like a good thing!

15.01.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hahahaha this genuinely made me laugh out loud!!

15.01.2025 15:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Aaah that's SO nice! Thank you!!! 😊

15.01.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

THANK YOU!! πŸ™Œ

15.01.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi I'm Helen and I don't know how Bluesky works! I'll be sharing maps & dataviz that I make and love - as well as tutorials on how to recreate them!

These will likely be interspersed with photos of my enormous cat and/or lunch.

15.01.2025 10:42 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 3

What do I do

15.01.2025 10:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0