From the monthly archives: October 2007

AUTISM- Is it over-diagnosed or just misunderstood?

On October 5, 2007 By admin

How big a deal is it?

In numbers, most recent reviews estimate a prevalence of one to two cases per 1,000 people for autism, and about six per 1,000 for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with ASD averaging a 4.3:1 male-to-female ratio. Estimates of 1 to 1.5 million Americans are effected with disorder. With [...]

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New GeoCommons Update

On October 2, 2007 By admin

It is my great pleasure to announce that an update to GeoCommons was pushed out yesterday, which has a number of new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and a completely restyled user interface.

Here are the highlights:

New “preview” feature in dataset listings — see the heatmap without having to make a map first! Generally [...]

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