My Independent Project on Reproducing Vijayan et al.’s 2020 Study
In our study of “Beyond the 405 and the 5: Geographic Variations and Factors Associated With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Po...
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2023
Reproducing a Study on Spatial Accessibility in Chicago, Illinois
In their study “Rapidly measuring spatial accessibility of COVID-19 healthcare resources: a case study of Illinois, USA”, Jeon-Young Kang et al. sought to an...
Evaluating SoVI Validity in a Reanalysis of Spielman et al.’s 2020 Study
In our study of “Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index” by Seth E. Spielman et al., we...
Social Vulnerability
The concept of social vulnerability, particularly as measured by the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI), has gained prominence in the field of disaster risk a...
Reanalyzing Vulnerability in Malcomb et al.’s 2014 Study
The choice of aggregation method depends on the specific context and objectives of a research, and one should carefully consider whether it aligns with the c...
Navigating Error and Uncertainty
Uncertainty and GIS GIS today creates the impression that geographic representations are inherently precise, and that spatial analysis can flawlessly encaps...
Reproduction of Chakraborty Study 2021
In our reproduction and reanalysis study of “Social Inequities in the Distribution of COVID-19: An Intra-Categorical Analysis of People with Disabilities in ...
Reproducible and Open Source GIS
To what extent does open-source GIS help solve the problems of the reproducibility crisis for geography? How? Before diving into the question, we need to de...
Is GIS a Science?
GIS as a Science Science builds on previous theories, takes empirical data, is complex, and makes meaning out of discoveries. Whether GIS counts as “science...