Instructors:
- Spring 2 2024 (Feb-May) - Jan Oliver Wallgrün
Panagiotis Giannakis
2217 EES Building
The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802
Email: Please use the course e-mail system (it ensures your emails don't get caught up in any spam filters). I check e-mail regularly and will do my best to respond to questions at least once per weekday and once on weekends unless I notify you otherwise. If Canvas is down you can try pmg5371@psu.edu.
Office hours: By appointment.
Welcome to the course!
Hello everyone. My name is Panagiotis Giannakis and I will be your instructor for this course. Before joining the Department of Geography at Penn State, I was working at the University of Arkansas, where I also received my PhD. I have been involved with online geospatial certificate programs (administrating, authoring, and teaching) for the last 5 years. I have experience teaching multiple courses such as Python, Geodatabases, Geospatial Analysis, and Geospatial Statistics. During the 2019-2020 academic year I will be responsible teaching apart from the GEOG 485: Programming and Software development, the GEOG 479: Spatial Data Science for Cyber and Human Social Networks, the GEOG 583 Geospatial System Analysis and Design, and the GEOG 585: Open Web Mapping.
I am really excited working with all of you over the next ten weeks as we go through all the material of the course.
Meet Panagiotis Giannakis, one of the instructors of this course (1:06 minutes).
Introductions for Spring 1 2024
Now it’s your turn to introduce yourself (you don't have to post pictures!). Please return to Canvas and post a brief introductory message to 'The Lounge' discussion forum describing:
- Your name and current occupation
- Any experience with Python (remember, none is required for this course)
- Any experience with other programming languages (none is required for this course)
- Any questions or concerns you have about Python or this course (optional)
Jan Oliver Wallgrün
Email: Please use the course e-mail system (it ensures your emails don't get caught up in any spam filters). I check e-mail regularly and will do my best to respond to questions at least once per weekday and once on weekends unless I notify you otherwise. If Canvas is down you can try wallgrun@psu.edu.
Office hours: By appointment.
I have been working as a researcher and instructor at the Penn State Geography department, but a few years ago moved back to Germany where I am originally from. I am a computer scientist by training with my master and Ph.D. both being in Informatics. However, I have been working in the areas of GIS and GIScience for a decade now. In my residential courses at Penn State, I have been teaching introductory courses to GIS and GIScience, geospatial data management and spatial databases, and object-oriented programming for GIScience. I am still conducting research in affiliation with the Penn State focusing on problems of spatial and spatio-temporal modeling and reasoning, as well as the interpretation and processing of human descriptions of spatial knowledge such as natural language descriptions or sketch maps. I am also interested in algorithmic problems of spatial data integration, matching, and query processing as a basis to build "intelligent" spatial retrieval and assistance systems. My most recent work also involves the application of immersive technologies (virtual and augmented reality) for spatial data analysis and GIScience education.
Introductions for Spring 2 2024
Now it’s your turn to introduce yourself (you don't have to post pictures!). Please return to Canvas and post a brief introductory message to "The Lounge" discussion forum describing:
- Your name and current occupation
- Any experience with Python (remember, none is required for this course)
- Any experience with other programming languages (none is required for this course)
- Any questions or concerns you have about Python or this course (optional)