From the monthly archives: October 2009

The Global Poverty Mapping Project

On October 29, 2009 By admin

I recently tackled uploading some relatively complicated, yet highly informative data from The Global Poverty Mapping Project(GPMP).  The creators (Columbia University Ivy Leaguers) mission is to “enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions where the poor live.”   I like that their mapping efforts are [...]

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Back in the day Chris Ingrassia wrote a document for us on what he thought the future of GIS would be, called the “The Once and Future Map”. Two articles recently reminded of Chris’s thoughts. The first was Don Meltz’s blog post+comments “GIS is Dead – Long Live GIS“, and the second was [...]

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Although there are some signs that the economy is on its way to recovery, the foreclosure rate is not one of them. The most recent data from RealtyTrac show that rates are at an all time high. In the third quarter of 2009, one in every 136 homes in the U.S. were foreclosed on. [...]

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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to the American Cancer Society, nearly one in eight women (12%) in the US will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. Globaly it was the second most common cancer in incidence and death for women according to the World Health Organization. [...]

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Well its official, Rio has beat out Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo, Prague, Baku and Doha to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Many are happy to see a country other than the regulars get the honor. Of the four countries that made it to the final round, Japan has hosted three previous Olympics, the US eight, and [...]

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