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2023

Hurricane Harvey Flooding Reproduction

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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 ...

Geographic Threats to Validity

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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...

Kang et al Reanalysis

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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

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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...

Reproducing Social Vulnerability Models

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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...

Malcomb et al Reanalysis

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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...

Uncertainty in Index Modeling

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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...

Disability and COVID-19 Reproduction

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In Open Source GIScience we conducted a reproduction study of Chakarborty (2021)1 which focused on the intersection between disability and other demographic ...

Reproducibility and Open GIScience

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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?

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While any given scientific experiment might rely on different principles or follow slightly different rules in general, science endeavors answer questions th...

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