Reproducing a Wildlife Corridor Analysis
For my culminating project in this class, I worked with Andy Atallah to reproduce a multi-criteria movement cost surface of Makayuni Corridor, a wildlife cor...
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2023
Geographic Threats to Validity
For my independent project to culminate this class, I will be working with Andy Atallah to replicate part of a wildlife corridor analysis. The original study...
Improving a Study of COVID-19 Spatial Accessibility
This week’s reproduction was based on a spatial accessibility study published by Kang et al in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the origina...
Reproducing and Reanalyzing SoVI Validity
Our third reproduction was based on a SoVI validity study published by Spielman et al in 2020. SoVI, the Social Vulnerability Index, was first developed by C...
Multi-Criteria Model Validity
The original Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) was developed in 2003 by Cutter, Boruff, and Shirley to evaluate county-level vulnerability to environmental h...
Reproducing a Climate Vulnerability Model
For our second reproduction study, we looked at a climate vulnerability model published by Malcomb et al in 2014. This study developed a multi-criteria model...
Uncertainty, Error, and Provenance
GIS is always an imperfect conception of the real world, making some degree of uncertainty inevitable. Beyond conception, uncertainty is propagated and compo...
A First Crack at Reproduction
This week, I tested the waters of what it’s like to reproduce the work of other researchers by modifying the the code from Chakraborty (2021), a study that a...
Reproducible and Open GIScience
Open source GIS has the potential to revolutionize the way we see reproducibility and replicability in the field of geography. “Open source” should be distin...
Is GIS a Science?
All the way back in 1997, the geographer Dawn J. Wright addressed the ambiguity of GIS as ‘tool’ versus ‘science’, writing: