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2023

Reproducing a Wildlife Corridor Analysis

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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...

Geographic Threats to Validity

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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...

Reproducing and Reanalyzing SoVI Validity

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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All the way back in 1997, the geographer Dawn J. Wright addressed the ambiguity of GIS as ‘tool’ versus ‘science’, writing:

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