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Take a Beautiful Tour of All the Public Art in the Bay Area

John Metcalfe You can live in a city all your life and only see about 1 percent of its hidden beauty. That's the message one could easily draw from this crowd-sourced caboodle of public art in the Bay Area, which includes everything from a 1930s beach-chalet mural to a bronze Willie Mays to "Kittenzillas" shooting lasers from their eyes to a…
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Mapping a Better World

A new interdisciplinary undergraduate degree in GeoDesign offered through USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute is the first of its kind in the world. By Susan Bell Population growth, rapid urbanization, meeting water and energy needs, biological conservation and climate change — these are some of the most difficult and enduring challenges facing the world today.…
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From Maps to Apps

In a course taught by Edward Pultar of USC Dornsife's Spatial Sciences Institute, students learn to develop apps that help solve real-world problems. By Andrew Good Every day, smartphone users rely on mapping data for directions, weather and social media. But graduate students in a new mobile design course at USC Dornsife are finding more…
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Mapping the Twitterverse

What does your Twitter profile reveal about you? More than you know, according to Chris Weidemann. The GIST master’s student has developed an application that follows geospatial footprints. By Michelle Salzman Boston You start your day at your favorite breakfast spot. When your order of strawberry waffles with extra whipped cream arrives, it’s too delectable…
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