A professional biography: This assignment was designed to help students get ready for their professional careers. It encourages them to evaluate their current roles, skills, and expertise in their field while considering their long-term career aspirations and perspectives in areas such as geography, geology, urban studies, data science, or related disciplines.  

City Facts Analysis: This assignment tasks students with using data analysis and visualization skills to examine social and demographic differences between cities, utilizing U.S. Census data. The final report serves as a foundation for exploring real-world issues in geography and planning. 

Job-to-Job Flows: This assignment allows students to build and showcase their network analysis and visualization skills using Job-to-Job (J2J) flow data from the US Census. Students will develop a research question about job flows in the US and use visualization techniques to address it. The J2J explorer offers examples such as analyzing worker reallocation, industry connectivity, and demographic trends in job flows. 

GeoVis Poster: This project uses map-making to explore real-world issues, with results shared through posters. Students choose a mappable topic and location, source spatial data, and apply GeoVisualization skills from labs to complete a workflow from data collection to visualization. 

GeoVis Investigation: Like the GeoViz Poster project, this task requires students to apply visualization skills to analyze a meaningful real-world issue across disciplines like geography, urban planning, or public health. Students can choose any topic, location, and scale, but the work must center on spatial data visualizations they source themselves. 

For use in an honors thesis project, high-resolution drone imagery was collected and processed into a mosaic. This mosaic was then prepared for analysis, serving as a foundational dataset for exploring the research question. The process involved capturing overlapping aerial images, aligning them using photogrammetry techniques, and creating a composite map suitable for detailed spatial analysis.