Geographic Threats to Validity
I will be working on a reproduction of an analysis of the environmental justice patterns of Hurricane Harvey in Harris County that was part of a Geography 12...
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Reproducing Social Vulnerability Models
Over the past few weeks we have read about and discussed the use and validity of several vulnerability indices. These models range in what exactly they are a...
Uncertainty in Index Modeling
The study conducted by Malcomb et al aims to create a climate vulnerability index for Malawi based upon a multitude of indicators ranging from electricity ac...
Reproducibility and Open GIScience
One of the primary threats to reproducibility in GIS is a lack of transparency. Primary examples of scientific opacity are data, tools, and software getting ...
Is GIS a Science?
While any given scientific experiment might rely on different principles or follow slightly different rules in general, science endeavors answer questions th...
Studies
Hurricane Harvey Flooding Reproduction
As my final project in the Open Source GIScience course I reproduced an introductory QGIS lab problem using a reproducible Python notebook. The original lab ...
Kang et al Reanalysis
Our reproduction study of Kang et al provided an opportunity for learning applied network analysis in the context of spatial accesibility to healthcare. The ...
Spielman et al Reanalysis
Spielman et al 1 attempted to verify the validity of the Social Vulnerability Index(SoVI) developed by Cutter et al2. Spielman et al. reproduce the main piec...
Malcomb et al Reanalysis
Malcomb et al 1 attempt to produce a climate vulnerability model for the nation of Malawi using a variety of indicators, and we aimed to reproduce this study...
Disability and COVID-19 Reproduction
In Open Source GIScience we conducted a reproduction study of Chakarborty (2021)1 which focused on the intersection between disability and other demographic ...