Presentations with Prezi

A couple of days ago I held a workshop at the local university college about network analysis in GIS. The event went well and I received some positive feedback from participants and faculty staff. During the session, I introduced the concept of network analysis and routing to the students and demonstrated how to use ArcGIS [...]

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English grammar rules

Lately, while going through an archive of readings that I have on one of my external USB-disks, I found a humorous article about writing in English. It is said that back in the 1940′s, the following message was prominently displayed at the front of the main chemistry lecture hall at a major university: “The English [...]

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Phrase book for researchers and scientists

While writing my master thesis paper one year ago, I was lucky enough to find a perfect book for researchers and all people who deal with scientific writing. PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English written by Stephen Howe and Kristina Henriksson is very well structured. It can help one to write an article [...]

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Google search

I have read recently a remarkable book by John Battele: The Search. The book contains very concise and easy-to-understand explanation of the Internet search technology and explains how Google and its rivals are indeed shaping the network society. The book describes briefly some technical issues of the search per se and provides some future perspectives [...]

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