
UCR Center for Geospatial Sciences (CGS)
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The @UCRiverside Center for Geospatial Sciences (CGS), Established in 2017. Open Spatial Analytics for Science, Policy, & Community. #UCRCGS
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Our Social Science page compiles resources for urban development and housing data, at-risk community assessments, racial equity, women and sustainable development, and much more. Find social science tools for qualitative research below! HUD User UCR Center for Geospatial Sciences (CGS) ArcGIS Urban


What can #opensource #urbananalytics and the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey tell us about the ways that income segregation has evolved along different dimensions through the 2010s? This PySAL-powered dashboard can tell you! x.com/knaaptime/stat⦠All Things Census


Did you know that #UCRCGS houses The Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL), which hosted three international students as part of the Google Summer of Code (@GSOC)? Be sure to check out PySAL's recent post and the students' fantastic work!

This week's #UCRCGS Center Spotlight is Dr. Ran Wei, who is an Associate Professor UCR School of Public Policy and a founding faculty member of our center. Dr. Wei is interested in GIScience development and the ways in which it can be implemented when addressing social and environmental issues.

New paper by Kang et al: 'Changes in the economic status of #neighbourhoods in U.S. metropolitan areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, #growth, and #polarisation' UCR Center for Geospatial Sciences (CGS) ow.ly/S4Te50Go8y6


Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay, Highlanders! Weād like to respectfully recognize our responsibility to the Cahuilla, Tongva, LuiseƱo, and Serrano peoples, whose land UC Riverside stands upon. Learn more about the Indigenous land you live on and work on at native-land.ca.

The UCR Library is hosting a Geospatial/GIS Faculty Panel on Oct. 14 from 12:00 - 1:20 PM. #UCRCGS founding faculty members and affiliates will be participating in this event! Register today via eventbrite.com/e/geospatialgiā¦.




This week's #UCRCGS Center Spotlight is Dr. Amr Magdy (Amr Magdy), an Assistant Professor UCR Computer Science and Engineering, and a founding faculty member of our center. Dr. Magdy is interested in big spatial data management & bridging spatial data science libraries with data systems.



for folks using Python or R, we (UCR Center for Geospatial Sciences (CGS)) keep optimized versions of each ACS 5-year vintage (tract and blockgroup) *with geometries* as parquet files in a public S3 bucket (read: FAST). The variable set matches LTDB x.com/DanImmergluck/ā¦

#OSS in #HigherEd Founding director of the Center for Geospatial Sciences at UC Riverside (UCR Center for Geospatial Sciences (CGS)), developed new computational techniques for geographic data, and is a major proponent for making them available through #opensource software. newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscente⦠#EdTech
