In February and March, I presented three 3-hour webinars on working with U.S. Census Bureau data in #rstats with tidycensus in collaboration with SSDAN All the materials are free, public, and made available to you as learning resources Check out the slide decks here: 📈

I'm teaching spatial, stochastic simulation in my #DataAnalytics course. To help my students make the leap from spatial estimation to spatial simulation I built out this #Python Matplotlib dashboard with my sequential Gaussian simulation codes on #GitHub @

A new tool by Western University and our team at Esri Canada unveils 70 years of #census data across Canadian neighbourhoods, opening a window for us to learn about our past and present and plan for a sustainable future. Social Sci @WesternU check it out: shorturl.at/lLMQX

‼️ We are thrilled to announce that the GIScience 2025 conference will be held at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-29, 2025 🇳🇿 giscience2025.org #giscience #gischat #giscience2025 University of Canterbury

Multigenerational health geographers #aag2024 #aaghawaii ⁦AAG Health Geography⁩ ⁦American Association of Geographers⁩ ⁦

New paper out in JBI about health equity integration in health service and delivery systems 🎉 HPI Dal Health journals.lww.com/jbisrir/fullte…

🌎 New in #GeoHealth Using remote sensing and reported activities, researchers created a refined estimate of emissions which reveal significant underestimates in official emissions estimates Red more 👉agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

PhD students: Apply to our 3-day summer workshop on innovative research methodologies engaged with urbanism & cities. Faculty present qualitative & quantitative research design, data analysis & visualization; students collaborate on research design & fdbk: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/summer-w…

Don’t forget to register for the CGU Annual Meeting in Ottawa, May 26-29, 2024! Early Bird prices end April 26. Visit our meeting page for full details: meet-here.ca/cgu2024/

Aloha! GeoDS Lab members and alumni reunion at #AAG2024 with @TimPrestby Yuhao Kang Jinmeng Rao

Check out Ingrid Giesinger in the Casual Inference Podcast podcast! 👇

Today, on International Earth Day, let's unite in appreciation of our planet's beauty and biodiversity. Let's stand together to honor and safeguard our precious planet, fostering a future of harmony and sustainability. 🌏🌿 #InternationalEarthDay #ProtectOurPlanet #GlobalUnity

Y'all can watch my latest talk "Countercartographies: Maps, art & social justice" on my website (bit.ly/3U9DkOT). I talk abt the intersections of creative geographies & countercartographies, drawing on creative work from YouAreHere's 2023 counter/cartographies issue.

Toronto Data Workshop summer series starts this Friday. All welcome. Details: rohanalexander.com/events-tdw.htm… Sign up: forms.gle/sXbEixoa1iJR4Q…

📢 🎉 Please join us in congratulating Prof. Kathi Wilson, who was awarded the 2024 Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award in Health and Medical Geography, American Association of Geographers, at the #AAG2024 🎉 Department of Geography and Planning U of T Mississauga_research DeansOffice_UTM University of Toronto @UTM

🥳🥳🥳 Our work led by PhD student Hwang Lee on “Investigating crop performance on urban green roofs using hyperspectral data” is out online at doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi…. @MarneyIsaac

Applications are open for the Leon & Rose Zitner Prize! It's a $5000 award for outstanding contributions to citizen knowledge and community engagement in the area of health. Applications are due May 15th. HPI dal.ca/faculty/health…

Today we launch Pt 2 of ‘Nothing for us, without us’, which looks at how an unwillingness to acknowledge anti-Black racism in Cdn. planning results in an illusion that systemic injustices don't exist & how real estate capitalism displaces Black communities youtube.com/watch?v=DDCLol…

This new paper by Dong Liu, PhD et al finds that perceived greenspace accessiblity is a significant predictor of greenspace usage, while objective greenspace accessibility did not have a significant relationship with actual greenspace usage.