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SSI’s Christopher Marder Quantifies the Qualitative

SSI’s Christopher Marder Quantifies the Qualitative M.S. GIST alumnus publishes award-winning thesis work The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing has published “The Role of Precision in Spatial Narratives: Using a Modified Discourse Quality Index to Measure the Quality of Deliberative Spatial Data,” authored by Christopher Marder (M.S. GIST ’19) with Dr. Jennifer Bernstein,…
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SSI’s Lisa Sedano comments on Google’s policy of contested borders

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When is a border is not really a border? If you’re looking at Google maps In areas where borders are disputed, the view you see depends upon your location. In the February 14, 2020 Washington Post article “Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking,” reporter Greg Bensinger points out that Google and…
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Jennifer Bernstein named 2020 TRELIS Fellow

Jennifer Bernstein
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) has announced on behalf of the TRELIS (Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM-Geospatial Sciences) Project that Jennifer M. Bernstein, Ph.D., Lecturer with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, has been named to the 2020 cohort of TRELIS Fellows. Supported by funding from a National Science Foundation grant, TRELIS…
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Identifying “hot streets” to reduce crime

Identifying “hot streets” to reduce crime MS GIST Alumnus Quincy Tom-Jack publishes thesis work in the International Journal of Geo-Information Law enforcement agencies have long used geographic information systems (GIS) to determine spatio-temporal crime patterns and have used spatial analysis to identify crime “hot spots” -- spatial clusters of high crime areas. However, existing analytical…
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