Reese's GIS Expedition

      The progress on my internship is going steady and has provided greater knowledge on my work as well as for mapping out the Precautionary Boil Water Notices. As of now I am over halfway done with compiling all of the data entries need to continue the project. With what has been done so far, it has illuminated areas that need improvement for the systems the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have. These areas being, repeat offenders who have not reported certain documents and whether some documents were put into a database or were duplicates. With concerns to GIS and the internship, it has given an appreciation for map making with the data that has been obtained so far. One of the days when I was working with the data, I changed its values to see how it would look showing certain data. This provided a good glimpse in how I will tackle the density mapping and incomplete vs complete PBWNs map. Overall, it has been a heartening experience to use to the skills...

      The assignments for the past two weeks had us looking at GIS businesses as well as conducting our own GIS job search to see what could be found. These are the takeaways I had from both assignments.     For the GIS businesses, it became clearer that GIS has been an ever expanding field of work that is used by multiple sectors. While I already had already known this, it was eye opening to view ESRI's industries tab and see all the sectors have in depth explanations for what they use GIS for. An example would be from my own internship where my state job falls under both water and  Environmental and Natural Resources Agencies. It also helped when conducting the job search the following week.     When I was conducting my job search, I knew from last week I wanted to find a job that used GIS but also involved what field of work I'm interested in. As when viewing GIS businesses it was evident that life sciences like ecology do requires use of GIS. ...