Room III-4121

Main Campus

This is a reminder that Global Brigades will be having our last GBM today at 12pm at MP 105. The meeting link will be: meet.google.com/ijs-iynj-sum

Thanks!

- Daniel

Reminder that we will be having our Blood Drive and Vaccinate-a-Village Fundraiser this week. 

The Blood Drive will be happening December 5th and 6th in the UC Ballroom (3rd Floor). Please use this link to sign up to donate blood: tinyurl.com/umbcblooddrive. You have the chance to get a $10 gift cards from the Red Cross! If you do sign up to donate, please make sure to come and on-time. Also, if you sign up to volunteer, please make sure to do the same. 

The VAV Fundraiser will be happening December 6th and 7th in the Common Breezeway. If you signed up to volunteer for this, please make sure to come on time and bundle up as it might get windy. 

If you have any questions/concerns, feel free to email any of the E-board members. 

Have a great Sunday! 

Measuring spatial association between different spatial layers is important in spatial data modeling. Traditionally, the relationship between variables can be measured by linear regression. The assumptions of those traditional methods are hard to meet in the spatial data. Also, the traditional statistical methods do not consider Tobler's First Law of Geography which is an important spatial data property. To address these drawbacks, I propose a spatial data association estimator (termed as SPatial Association DEtector, SPADE). By comparing the spatial heterogeneity, this estimator, which evolved from a variance-based relation estimator, explicitly considers the spatial variance by assigning the weight of the influence based on spatial distribution. It also overcomes the drawback of its old version which can only measure the association between continuous and discrete variables.

This method has been applied to estimate the influence of the environmental factors and their outcome (e.g. junction angle and environmental factors). The associations between environmental factors and junction angles have been used to infer the paleoenvironment of Mars; they showed that Mars was probably "warm" and "wet" several billion years ago. The method could also be used in human geography and social science to estimate the importance of spatial factors and their outcome.

Dr. Xuezhi Cang graduated from Northern Illinois University with Ph.D. degree in Geography. His research and teaching focus on Mars Geomorphology, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Information Systems. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at UMBC.

The Maryland Office of Legislative Audits is providing an externship!

Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 (9:00 am. to 4:00 pm.)

Spend the day at OLA

- Discovering what government auditing is all about

-Hearing about the work OLA performs to promote government accountability in

the State of Maryland

- Learning about the auditing techniques used to conduct compliance and

performance audits

- Completing simulated audit exercises to review government operations and

evaluate internal controls

- Talking with OLA audit teams about their recent audits

- Meeting and networking with OLA’s professional audit staff

Email your resume to jobs@ola.state.md.us (specify you are interested in the OLA Externship) by January 5, 2023.

OLA will provide parking, refreshments, and lunch on the day of the externship.

The externship will be held in our office at:

Location:

The Warehouse at

Camden Yards

351 West Camden

Street, Suite 400

Baltimore, MD 21201