Internship Opportunities

Are you interested in an internship to expand your skill set and build your professional network? Check out our job postings and contact us to apply.
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A data-informed approach to strategic planning

Most organizations will agree that strategic planning is important. It’s essential for setting goals, documenting accomplishments, evaluating resources, and measuring an organization’s success in each of these activities.  And most will agree that using data to inform the creation of a strategic plan is useful to ensure that the established goals address the most pressing issues and that...
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Al Roker’s Emergency Preparedness PSA

Last week, NBC’s TODAY Show released a series of four public service advertisements (PSAs) created in partnership with the Ad Council. In one PSA, Al Roker teamed with FEMA’s Ready campaign to raise awareness about emergency preparedness. What do you...
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Are YOU prepared for severe weather?

Early last year, meteorologists buzzed about how bizarre and extreme the weather was in 2011. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. sustained 14 weather and climate disasters that EACH caused $1 billion or more in damages [read the full article]. There was the disastrous tornado outbreak across the south and Midwest, deadly wildfires in the southeast,...
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Esri features Polis storymap

You may recall our post last summer that introduced the scholars who participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities intensive workshop hosted at The Polis Center and IUPUI. In that blog, we experimented with Esri’s new storymap templates that allow ArcGIS users to creatively visualize a tale by attaching spatial attributes to photographs, narrative, and more. Esri is now...
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