what’s nice about a medal ceremony is it’s just the athletes. there’s no hedge fund vampire or billionaire failson putting his hands on the hardware first
Here's a wild anecdote: while teaching high school students about genocide in 1993, Walz had them use GIS data to predict where the next one would occur. They said Rwanda. (the NYT verified this via interviews with some of those students in a 2008 story)
NEW: Giving the keynote address at a GIS conference last month, former high school geography teacher Tim Walz talked about some of his favorite maps https://t.co/ud1BbSTDBl
As a former geography teacher and self-proclaimed GIS nerd, I’m thrilled to proclaim today as Geographic Information Systems Day.
Here in Minnesota, we are using GIS to make state government more effective - whether we’re replacing lead pipes or expanding homeownership.