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Sharon K. Greene •
SaTScan updates —
Hello CSTE Spatial Analysis Workgroup!
Some of you might be interested in these new, free resources:
1. Our recent tutorial, "Prospective spatiotemporal cluster detection using SaTScan: tutorial for designing and fine-tuning a system to detect reportable communicable disease outbreaks"
2. SaTSca...
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Sharon K. Greene •
Health department letters of support for CDC-RFA-FT-23-0069 application —
Hello CSTE Spatial Analysis Workgroup! I’ve reached out to a few of you directly, but I’m posting here to invite additional health departments who might be interested in joining us on our CDC cooperative agreement application. We are responding to CDC-RFA-FT-23-0069 (https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-...
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Maria Patselikos •
Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analytics- Free Six Week Course with ESRI —
ESRI is offering a free 6 week course for interested individuals beginning on August 30th- October 11th.
For more information, interested individuals should follow the link here. Registration Ends on September 14th.
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Maria Patselikos •
CSTE Executive Board Voting is open! —
Voting is now open in the 2023 CSTE Executive Board Elections! If you are an active CSTE member, please log into your account, and navigate to the members section and view this year's candidates and cast your ballot by Thursday, May 11, 2023. Each member should have received a special email with ...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Spatial Analysis in ArcGIS Online Map Viewer
Webinar - May 9, 2023 | 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (PT) —
Solve problems with analysis in ArcGIS Online
Register Now (click here)
Spatial analysis uses location as a connective thread to help the world understand where things are happening, how they are related, and where patterns exist. In addition to mapping, analysis is an integral part of ArcGI...
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Maria Patselikos •
Discussion Question —
Just curious, what are some of the ways you are using Spatial Analysis in your current work or a previous project?
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Maria Patselikos •
Webinar Today! —
Good morning,
Please join the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 at 1:00pm for a webinar entitled “The power of Arcade and Living Atlas content in ArcGIS Online” hosted by the Spatial Analysis Workgroup. For your convenience, the calendar i...
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Maria Patselikos •
Upcoming Webinar February 21, 2023 —
Good morning,
Please join the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 at 1:00pm for a webinar entitled “The power of Arcade and Living Atlas content in ArcGIS Online” hosted by the Spatial Analysis Workgroup. For your convenience, the calendar i...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 Congressional District Health Dashboard —
If you don't know about this site please check it out!
The Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD) builds on the City Health Dashboard’s foundation, responding to requests for additional unbiased health and wellbeing data at the congressional district level. This tool will give policyma...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 ESRI MOOC's* for 2023 (free courses) —
Happy new year everyone!
*MOOC -
1. a course of study made available over the internet without charge to a very large number of people.
2. "anyone who decides to take a MOOC simply logs on to the website and signs up"
These free online courses are for anyone who wants to build new skills, grow...
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Maria Patselikos •
REMINDER: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE —
As a reminder, the final deadline to submit an abstract for the 2023 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah is Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST. Our 2023 Annual Conference theme is "Epidemiology Elevated: Supporting People and P...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and Redlining Maps —
Wanted to share this site with folks - Not Even Past presents maps for 200 cities.
Please read the introduction page so you understand how to interact with the site.
There are multiple cities to choose from.
Enjoy!
Scott
* redlining: the practice of denying fair access to credit, particularl...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Maria Patselikos •
👏 Opportunity for Informatics Host Sites —
CSTE is currently accepting applications from state, territorial, local, and tribal public health agencies to host an informatics fellow in the Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF). This is a 2-year program where CSTE facilitates a match between a host site and a fellow, who is a ...
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Eric Howard •
GIS in Data Analytics Showcase Series —
The CSTE Early Career Professionals Subcommittee is excited to host a Data Analytics Showcase Series featuring webinars on different software utilized in applied epidemiology. The first webinar entitled “Visualizing your Community with Esri” will take place on Monday, December 5 at 1:00 pm EST. R...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Geography in Everyday Life in 2022: How geography is embedded in our everyday lives —
Article I recently read and wanted to share - https://www.directionsmag.com/article/11897
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Maria Patselikos •
Story Map Webinar starting soon! :) —
"What are StoryMaps?" Presentation from the ESRI User Conference, Summer 2022
ESRI ArcGIS StoryMaps is a story authoring web-based application that allows you to share your maps in the context of narrative text and other multimedia content.
You can use ArcGIS StoryMaps to do the following:
• Au...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Maria Patselikos •
👏 Call for Abstracts for the 2023 CSTE Annual Conference NOW OPEN! —
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The Call for Abstracts for the 2023 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah is now open. Our 2023 Annual Conference theme is "Epidemiology Elevated: Supporting People and Places." The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday,...
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Maria Patselikos •
Upcoming Webinar: What are Story Maps? November 15th 1pm EST —
Please join us for the upcoming Spatial Analysis Webinar on November 15th, 2022 at 1 pm EST with our very own, Scott Troppy from the Massachussetts Department of Public Health!
"What are StoryMaps?" Presentation from the ESRI User Conference, Summer 2022
ESRI ArcGIS StoryMaps is a story author...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 City Access Map —
Found this one on twitter - thought I would share.
https://www.cityaccessmap.com/
CITYACCESSMAP, was developed to provide public administrations, metropolitan authorities, municipalities, NGOs, private organizations, and residents, with the necessary tools to answer these questions. It's an ope...
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💡 Request for information by
Eric Howard •
💡 GIS Education —
Hey All,
I have a survey regarding GIS Education to garner thoughts on what is important in this changing climate of multiple hat-wearing. Please feel free to share this with anyone in your org that works with spatial data.
https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/85abfb147d214f1b97e6d55c49186ca3[Her...
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Maria Patselikos •
Grant Opportunity: Urban Indian Health Institute —
Passing along this information to anyone who may be interested. https://www.uihi.org/projects/decolonizing-data/
Urban Indian Health Institute is now accepting applications for our Decolonizing Data grant—an opportunity for your project or program to receive up to $50,000 in funding. We’ll award...
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Maria Patselikos •
Training Opportunity Available! —
The CSTE Spatial Analysis workgroup will be hosting a four-part training series entitled “Using ArcGIS to Examine Clusters and Assess COVID Health Disparities" beginning Wednesday July 27th, 2022! This webinar series will serve as an introduction to more tools specifically with a focus on applica...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Chronic Disease Map Gallery —
Not sure who is at CSTE this year - was just on a GIS session and this site was discussed: https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/maps/gisx/mapgallery?Sort=Date%3A%3Adesc
Ricardo is in Louisville this year and I am remote.
Thanks.
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Sharon K. Greene •
Call for suggestions for SaTScan software enhancements —
Hello friends, I hope you have had a chance to test out the new features in SaTScan v.10.0 (www.satscan.org), some of which we introduced on the 1/19/21 webinar (https://www.cste.org/general/custom.asp?page=WebinarLibrary).
More features will be released for free download soon, including descrip...
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🚨 ALERT by
Maria Patselikos •
🚨 Not Spatial but, Epi methods Webinar Tomorrow —
Please join the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 at 1:00pm EDT for a webinar on the implementations of electronic case reporting (eCR) hosted by the CSTE Epi Methods Subcommittee. For your convenience, the calendar invite has been attached.
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Preserving Significant Places of Black History - Webinar, Wednesday, 2/16 at 12 EST —
NORTHEAST ARC USERS GROUP - https://www.northeastarc.org/community-events.html
Preserving Significant Places of Black History
Wednesday, February 16th, 12:00-1:00pm
In honor of Black History Month, NEARC is excited to be welcoming the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to share th...
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Maria Patselikos •
**Updated** Cluster Detection Webinar 2/16th —
Hi everyone!
The CSTE Epi Methods Subcommitee invites you to join an upcoming webinar entiled "Application of Cluster Detection in Public Health" presented by Dr. Agricola Odoi on February 16th at 1pm EST. The presentation will cover overview and applications of spatial cluster detection metho...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 Webinar Tomorrow! 1pm EST —
Please join us for the upcoming Spatial Analysis Webinar on December 14th, 2021 at 1 pm EST with Guest speaker Dr. Kevin Lane.
Dr. Kevin Lane is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Dr. Lane’s research focus are in the field of air...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Cartography MOOC by ESRI - Free Course (starts in Feb 2022) —
Click here to learn more about this MOOC: Cartography
Duration: 6 Weeks (2-3 hours of study per week)
Cost: Free
FEB 16 - APR 6, 2022
[Download Course Topics]
Once, only cartographers made maps. Today, anyone can. Still, cartographers can teach people to make better maps, just as chefs can ...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Omicron Tracker Map - Map of Confirmed Cases of B.1.1.529 VARIANT —
Another share with the group: https://newsnodes.com/nu_tracker
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 WALRUS FROM SPACE —
Good morning - a fun share with the group! Something other than COVID.
Walrus are under threat from a warming climate. Now you can help. Become a Walrus Detective!
https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/walrus-from-space
WHAT IS WALRUS FROM SPACE?
• Walrus are facing the reality of the climate crisis an...
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Maria Patselikos •
SAVE THE DATE! Upcoming Webinar December 14, 2021! —
Please join us for the upcoming Spatial Analysis Webinar on December 14th, 2021 at 1 pm EST with Guest speaker Dr. Kevin Lane.
Dr. Kevin Lane is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Dr. Lane’s research focus are in the field of air...
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Linda Schieb •
CDC/ATSDR 2021 Place & Health Conference - Nov. 16 —
Join us on Tuesday, November 16, 2021. The 2021 Place & Health Conference is a free, virtual event featuring a full day of presentations, posters, and lightning talks focused on the evolving role of geospatial science and technology in public health. The conference is open to all CDC/ATSDR staff ...
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Maria Patselikos •
Spatial Analysis Webinar Next Week! —
Please join us Tuesday, October 19th at 1:00pm EST to hear from our two workgroup chairs, Scott Troppy and Ricardo Contreras as we review the findings from the needs assessment conducted earlier this year. There will also be an opportunity to discuss next steps for the workgroup and to hear abou...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Maria Patselikos •
👏 Journal Article of Interest: Geographic Associations Between Social Factors and SARS-CoV-2 Testing Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic —
Sharing this journal article entitled "Geographic Associations Between Social Factors and SARS-CoV-2 Testing Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic, February–June 2020, Massachusetts" authored by our very own Scott!
Congratulations to you and your team!
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 2021 UC One-Stop-Shop for all things ArcGIS Dashboards —
Been awhile since I shared on our GIS basecamp - wanted to share this session with the group.
In the Designing Effective Dashboards technical session from the 2021 User Conference, we had yet another round of tremendous participation and support from dashboard users all over the world.
With some...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Hostovich •
👏 SaTScan 10 Release —
The SaTScan Enhancements Project is happy to announce the release of SaTScan 10. An overview of features and improvements is outlined by the version history document (https://www.satscan.org/techdoc.html).
Note: The SaTScan Enhancements Project is managed by the Fund for Public Health in New Yo...
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Maria Patselikos •
Reminder: Request for feedback! —
Hi everyone, hope you are enjoying the month of May so far!
A friendly reminder that if you have not completed the very brief assessment to please do so by the end of this week. Once the data has been collected and analyzed, we will be reviewing the information on our next call!
Link to asses...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 StoryMaps Live! Webinar - April 27 at 2 p.m. - Tribal Storytelling —
StoryMaps Live! Episode 10 (April 2021)
Description
In this episode we'll be focusing on how ArcGIS StoryMaps is being used for tribal storytelling efforts in the United States. Our featured storyteller, Casey Palmer-McGee, will discuss how StoryMaps is being used by the Samish Indian Nation (ht...
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💡 Request for information by
Maria Patselikos •
💡 We want to hear from you! —
Good afternoon,
The Spatial Analysis workgroup would like your feedback as we begin to plan upcoming topics for this fall. Please complete this brief assessment at your earliest convenience, no later than Friday, May 7th, 2021. Once the data has been collected and analyzed, we will be reviewing ...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Maria Patselikos •
👍 Webinar tomorrow 2pm EDT hosted by CSTE Surveillance Policy Subcommittee —
The CSTE Surveillance Policy Subcommittee is hosting a webinar on Friday, April 16th from 2-3 pm EDT to learn more about CDC’s new COVID-19 Case Surveillance Public Use Data with Geography, specifically an overview of privacy protections. We invite you all to join tomorrow's webinar.
See inf...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 March Webinar —
Good afternoon everyone!
In lieu of a March Webinar, we invite you all to attend an upcoming webinar on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT hosted by the CSTE Epi Methods Subcommittee.
During our latest installment of this ongoing webinar, we will host two presentations entitled:
• When...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Esri Health and Human Services GIS Conference, April 21-22, 2021 —
Learn More and Register
Esri Health and Human Services GIS Conference
April 21–22, 2021 | 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (PDT) | Join us virtually (Complimentary Registration)[Image]
Better Health through Location
Health and human services professionals benefit from insights that the power of location...
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Maria Patselikos •
Reminder: Webinar Today at 1pm ET —
Please join us for our next Spatial Analysis webinar entitled "What's New with Living Atlas and ArcGIS Online" scheduled for Tuesday, February 16th at 1pm ET.
Description:
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World has all kinds of maps, apps, and layers that GIS analysts in health can use. Items contr...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 Webinar Scheduled- Feb 16th —
Good afternoon!
Please join us for our next Spatial Analysis webinar entitled "What's New with Living Atlas and ArcGIS Online" scheduled for Tuesday, February 16th at 1pm ET.
Description:
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World has all kinds of maps, apps, and layers that GIS analysts in health can...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Maria Patselikos •
👍 NACCHO Opportunity —
NACCHO has an opportunity to identify 1-2 stakeholders to be part of the Pandemic GIS Task Force convened by the NAPSG Foundation, National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), and the Urban & Regional Information Systems Association (URISA). This task force was established in May 2020 ...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 The Mapping Inequality Project Speaker Series, 3/4/2021 (12-1 p.m. EST) —
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching the Environmental Justice (EJ) and Systemic Racism Speaker Series by featuring The Mapping Inequality Project on March 4, 2021 at 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST. This unique collaboration created a foundational resource for unprecedented research...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 Find a National Park Service Map - for the map geeks out there —
One day we will travel again....in the meantime we can dream - right???
You can find and export NPS maps in jpeg, pdf or Adobe Illustrator for all National Park Service maps. Check it out: https://www.nps.gov/carto/app/#!/parks
Also links to the websites for each park.
My favorite happy place...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Webinar Series - Advancing Racial Equity in State and Local Government, January 27, 2021, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PST) —
Using Location Intelligence to Address the Impact of Racial Injustice on Health Equity
Racial inequities have been acknowledged as a barrier to improved health outcomes. Bringing together different perspectives on the topic of improving health equity in our communities leads to a holistic approa...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 now something fun....for our geography nerds —
City roads - type in your city and watch what happens.
This website renders every single road within a city - https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/
This website was created by @anvaka. It downloads roads from OpenStreetMap and renders them with WebGL.
You can find the entire source code here. I...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Training Opportunity - Education Chat: Creating more powerful and beautiful maps: Using the new ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, Jan 5th —
Join us tomorrow, 5 Jan 2021, for our 1st Education Chat of 2021 on the following:
Topic: Creating More Powerful and Beautiful Maps: Using the New Map Viewer for ArcGIS Online.
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 | 12 NOON (ET), 11 AM (CST), 10 AM (MDT), 9 AM (PDT)
https://esri.zoom.us/meeting/regis...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 Upcoming Webinar January 19th, 2021 at 1pm EST —
Thank you to everyone who joined today's webinar! It will be posted later this week.
As mentioned on today's call the next webinar is entitled Monitoring COVID-19 Community Outbreaks using SaTScan scheduled for January 19th, 2021 at 1pm EST.
DESCRIPTION:
This webinar will introduce featur...
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Maria Patselikos •
Reminder: Webinar Today at 1pm EST —
Please join us on Today, December 15th at 1:00pm EST to learn more about Esri ArcGIS Insights from Mr. Warren Roberts.
DESCRIPTION:
Esri ArcGIS Insights is a powerful analysis made intuitively powerful through the browser. Unlock new insights for all skill levels, across departments by enrich...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 Register today: Spatial Analysis Webinar this Tuesday, December 15th! —
Good morning! The Spatial Analysis Workgroup is happy to annouce an upcoming webinar for the month of December!
Please join us on Tuesday, December 15th at 1:00pm EST to learn more about Esri ArcGIS Insights from Mr. Warren Roberts.
DESCRIPTION:
Esri ArcGIS Insights is a powerful analysis ...
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Maria Patselikos •
Speaker Information 3 of 3: Webinar Today, 1pm EST. —
Bio: Kathleen received her Master of Public Health from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She is currently an epidemiologist at Clark County Public Health in Vancouver, Washington and supports chronic disease, behavioral health and maternal child health work.
Description of presentati...
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Maria Patselikos •
Speaker Information 2 of 3: Reminder Webinar Tomorrow! —
Bio: Christopher Ahmed is a spatial epidemiologist at the Washington State Department of Health. He works on the Washington Tracking Network (WTN), a program focused on making public health data more accessible through gathering and curating data and making it freely available online to download ...
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Maria Patselikos •
Speaker Information (1 of 3): Meet Dr. Spoer —
Ben R. Spoer is a data scientist and spatial epidemiologist in the NYU Grossman Department of Population Health. He manages the data team for the City Health Dashboard (www.cityhealthdashboard.com), a Robert Wood Johnson-funded free online data platform providing 35+ measures of health and health...
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Maria Patselikos •
SAVE THE DATE (and TIME) 11/17/2020 1pm EST. —
Good morning! The Spatial Analysis Workgroup is happy to announce an upcoming webinar next week!
Please join us on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 at 1:00pm for a Spatial Analysis Lightning Session.
The Spatial Analysis Workgroup will be hosting three presentations entitled:
Census Tract Mappin...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 Mapping the Thanksgiving Harvest (Fun story map) —
See the sources of your cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie & other #Thanksgiving staples in 8 US #maps. #dataviz Click map points to get @USDA information, by county, about the family farms behind your holiday meal. #agriculture
http://ow.ly/EgeP50CeKMn
***Making a plug for Massachusetts: Cranberr...
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💡 Request for information by
Christian Murua •
💡 John Hopkins Spatial Analysis program —
Has anyone gone through John Hopkins Spatial Analysis for Public Health program? They have a certificate and masters degree. I'm interested in the certificate but I don't know anyone that has gone through it.
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💡 Request for information by
Jonathan Bressler •
💡 Looking to connect with Injury Epi folks —
Hello, I just got added to the group.
I am a new Injury Epidemiologist with the State of Massachusetts, specifically focused on Injury-induced Pediatric Morbidity/Mortality, specifically supporting Child Fatality Review activities.
They are looking to bring more spatial analytical perspective...
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Maria Patselikos •
2021 CSTE ANNUAL CONFERENCE: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN!! —
The Call for Abstracts for the 2021 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA is now open. The deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 11:59 pm EST.
We are currently planning for the 2021 Conference to be held in-pers...
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Scott Troppy •
U.S. Hospital Reporting Dashboard —
Saw this dashboard and wanted to share - using the ESRI Data Hub.
COVID-19 Hospital Reporting Dashboard: Overview HHS Protect provides timely and accurate data for the nation’s COVID-19 response with hospitals reporting:
• COVID-19 Reported Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity by State
• COVID...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 The Global COVID-19 Viewer visualizes daily updated global data of COVID-19 cases and deaths at a glance, and several risk factors. —
Recently shared with me via the Northeast ARCGIS user group I belong to.
The Global COVID-19 Viewer visualizes daily updated global data of COVID-19 cases and deaths at a glance, and several risk factors. In the latest update, the map displays the national prevalence (case) and death rates for ...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Maria Patselikos •
👏 Now Posted- Detecting Emerging COVID-19 Community Outbreaks —
Good morning!
Just wanted to let you all know the presentation entitled "Detecting Emerging COVID-19 Community Outbreaks" has been posted to Baseacamp (Docs and Files>Presentation Slides>2020 Presentations) and the CSTE Webinar Library.
Thank you and have a great day!
Maria
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 From the ESRI user group conference: App to spatially explore several variables related to #COVID19 in the U.S. —
Lets see if I can replicate for our data here in MA - not sure I can but want to try it - anyone out there want to share any of their visualizations with our Spatial group?
https://ekenes.github.io/covid19viz/
In prep for #EsriUC I built this app to spatially explore several variables related ...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 MOOC: Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps —
Anyone can build apps on the ArcGIS platform.
Jul 29 - Aug 26, 2020
Location: Online
Registration closes on August 13, 2020
You don't have to be a software developer to build valuable geo-enabled apps that make your communities smarter and businesses more successful. Learn how to combine loca...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S. —
A Fun map to share...hope everyone is hanging in there....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/17/upshot/coronavirus-face-mask-map.html?referringSource=articleShare
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Maria Patselikos •
Reminders/ Updates —
Good morning everyone!
1. The slides and recording from Dr. Kissler’s presentation have been uploaded to the Spatial Analysis Basecamp site. Additionally, the webinar presentation should be added to the CSTE Webinar Library at the end of this week.
2. The webinar evaluation for Dr. Kissler’s...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 July Webinar Scheduled —
Good morning! The Spatial Analysis Workgroup is happy to annouce an upcoming webinar for the month of July!
Please join us on Wednesday, July 22nd at 2:00pm EDT to hear from Dr. Sharon Greene and Dr. Martin Kulldorff on "Detecting Emerging COVID-19 Community Outbreaks ".
DESCRIPTION:
Spa...
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Maria Patselikos •
June Webinar Posted —
Good morning everyone!
Just wanted to let you all know the Recording from Dr. Kissler's presentation has been posted to the Basecamp and can be found in Docs & Files> Presentation Slides>2020 Presentations.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and Happy 4th!!
Maria
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 June Webinar Scheduled! —
Good evening! The Spatial Analysis Workgroup is happy to annouce an upcoming webinar for the month of June!
Please join us on Tuesday, June 30th at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Stephen Kissler on "Modeling SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a shifting landscape".
DESCRIPTION:
As the SARS-CoV-2 pande...
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📈 Webinar by
Svetlana •
📈 NAPSG Open Community Forum: COVID-19 Technology & GIS Hot Wash Part 1 —
NAPSG Foundation
Open Community Forum: COVID-19 Technology & GIS Hot Wash Part 1
Register Now!
Join us for the first in a series of Open Community Forums: COVID-19 Technology & GIS Hot Washes - to listen, learn, and share your location-enabled technology related challenges and success stories in...
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Scott Troppy •
Mapping a Monster, on making sense of COVID-19 data through geospatial technology - webinar you might be interested in.... —
FYI, must use Chrome browser to register.
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John’s Hopkins University Energy and Environmental Programs Speaker Series is hosting a four-part series called Mapping a Monster, on making sense of COVID-19 data through geospatial technology...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 Virtual GIS Training for State and Local Health Department Staff (ongoing) —
A great share from Joshua Tootoo <jltootoo@rice.edu>:
Posting from: https://www.chronicdisease.org/page/GISnews
Virtual GIS Training for State and Local Health Department Staff (ongoing)
We will be continuing our series of Virtual GIS Trainings offered by CEHI, Rice University. These webinar-...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 How Population Shape Tilts Your Odds of Getting COVID-19 —
An interesting article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-population-shape-tilts-your-odds-getting-covid-19-cotton-phd
Thanks to Carl...from a listserv I am on.
Carl Kinkade, DrPH, MCRP, GISP
Health Scientist
Surveillance and Information System Team
Global Epidemiology, Laboratory, and Sur...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out —
This was shared with me this morning - from the Atlantic Monthly.
Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out
If the authorities can’t satisfy the public’s desire to know more, others will fill the void with misinformation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/health-experts-dont-...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 This Is the Future of the Pandemic —
Thought I would share this recent article - we have worked with this team of scientists here in Boston on other projects.
This Is the Future of the Pandemic -
Covid-19 isn’t going away soon. Two recent studies mapped out the possible shapes of its trajectory.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 As states reopen, 8 Coronavirus maps help track where new cases are spreading or controlled —
A map share I found today.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90501079/as-states-reopen-8-coronavirus-maps-help-track-where-new-cases-are-spreading-or-controlled
Now a new series of interactive maps has added several layers of context to the much-cited coronavirus statistics provided by Johns Hopkin...
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🚨 ALERT by
Maria Patselikos •
🚨 Canceled Call Tomorrow —
Please note that the Spatial Analysis workgroup call scheduled for tomorrow, April 21, 2020 at 1pm EDT has been canceled. We hope to reconvene in May, pending COVID-19 activity. We thank you for your diligent work at this time, and hope you are taking care of yourselves!
Best,
Maria
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 ‘Every day is a new surprise.’ Inside the effort to produce the world’s most popular coronavirus tracker —
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/every-day-new-surprise-inside-effort-produce-world-s-most-popular-coronavirus-tracker#
Many websites track the devastating spread of disease and death caused by the now-pandemic coronavirus, from the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) global map to The ...
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Maria Patselikos •
Cancellatioon of 2020 Annual Conference —
With Executive Board approval, CSTE has cancelled its 2020 Annual Conference, scheduled for June 28-July 2, 2020 in Seattle, Washington, and all affiliated events. If you have registered for the Conference and booked hotel accommodations through official housing provider, Orchid Events, no action...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Coronavirus Disease 2019 Impact Dashboard from ESRI —
This Infographic is updated once a day with the latest county level Covid-19 cases. Select county to view report.
https://business.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html?adumkts=social&utm_source=social&aduc=social&adum=external&aduca=social_trends&adusf=twitter&adut=3f005ab0-3597-4f2c-89...
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Maria Patselikos •
Reminder Webinar today! —
Reminder that the Spatial Analysis presentation for the month of March will be held on March 26th, 2020 at 1:00pm-2:00pm EST, in collaboration with the CSTE Health Disparities Subcomittee and the Public Health and Healthcare Analytics Workgroup.
DESCRIPTION:
AIDSVu is a free, online, interact...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Maria Patselikos •
👏 Update on 2020 CSTE Annual Conference and COVID-19 —
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is carefully monitoring developments related to COVID-19, including our own emergency preparedness and response ICS, and how this may impact travel to spring meetings and the 2020 CSTE Annual Conference. At this time, there are no plans ...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Why Geography Is A Key Part Of Fighting The COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak —
Sharing this article with the group:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2020/03/05/why-the-discipline-of-geography-is-a-key-part-of-the-coronavirus-fight/#34e117824f21
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Maria Patselikos •
March Webinar Date Changed —
Reminder that the Spatial Analysis presentation for the month of March will be held on March 26th, 2020 at 1:00pm-2:00pm EST, in collaboration with the CSTE Health Disparities Subcomittee and the Public Health and Healthcare Analytics Workgroup. Relevant annoucements regarding the Spatial Analy...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Maria Patselikos •
👏 Optional Webinar- CSTE OH Subcomittee Data Visualization Webinar #1: Tableau —
The CSTE OH Subcommittee will be hosting a series of webinars on data visualization. The first webinar in this series will be an introduction to Tableau and will be held:
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Time: 1:00-2:00pm (ET)
Presenters: Michael Moncavage, Strategic Customer Consultant ...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Highlights of ArcGIS Living Atlas Webinar —
Join Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World team and learn how to apply Living Atlas to enhance your everyday map-making process. This webinar will highlight the latest additions to Living Atlas, including new authoritative maps, apps, and data layers. From city planning to conservation, scienti...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 Reminder! Webinar Today! —
Please join us on Tuesday, February 18th at 1:00pm EST to hear from Rany Octaria on "Spatial Network Analysis of Hospital Patient Sharing in TN."
About the presentation:
Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) cause at least 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths each year in the United States. Mo...
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Maria Patselikos •
Registration Open for the 2020 CSTE Annual Conference in Seattle! —
Registration for the 2020 CSTE Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington is now open! This year's Annual Conference will take place June 28-July 2, 2020. An early bird discount is offered for registrations completed by 11:59 pm EDT on May 13, 2020. To register, visit www.csteconference.org.
AGA...
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Maria Patselikos •
CSTE Annual Awards- Nominations due March 1, 2020 —
Each year, CSTE presents a series of awards that recognize excellence in applied epidemiology. The awards are presented at the CSTE Annual Conference. The following awards are open for public nomination according to specifications on the CSTE Awards webpage:
• Pumphandle Award - recognizes outsta...
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📈 Webinar by
Maria Patselikos •
📈 February Webinar —
Hi everyone!
Please join us on Tuesday, February 18th at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Rany Octaria on "Spatial Network Analysis of Hospital Patient Sharing in TN."
About the presentation:
Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) cause at least 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths each year in the Un...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
New CSTE Lead: Maria Patselikos —
Hi everyone,
I hope you all have settled into the new year! I wanted to share an update regarding CSTE's Spatial Analysis workgroup. I will no longer be the point person for this workgroup as I have recently transitioned roles and will be supporting the Syndromic Surveillance portfolio here at C...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Ricardo Contreras •
👍 Interactive Map of Aging in NYC Link —
Here is the link to the interactive map (my apologies):
http://imagenyc.nyam.org/map/
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Ricardo Contreras •
👍 Interactive Map of Aging in NYC —
Hello,
Here is a great example of an interactive map of aging that is used to tap data from the US Census Bureau, courtesy of The New York Academy of Medicine and the CUNY Mapping Service. While this map service is specific to NYC, you may contact the authors if interested in adapting this map ...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
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Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases using an ESRI Operations Dashboard
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A great use of the operations dashboard with a timely example -
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Data will be updated daily.
Visualization: JHU CSSE.
Data sources: WHO, CDC, NHC and Dingxiangyuan.
Downloadable Google Sheet: Here.
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
CSTE Student Scholarship Opportunity —
P. Davis Student Scholarship is now open. Named in honor of longtime Wisconsin State Epidemiologist and CSTE Past President Jeff Davis, the scholarship provides funding for lodging, airfare and registration for the 2020 CSTE Annual Conference, which will take place June 28-July 2, 2020 in Seattle...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
January Webinar: GIS Operations Dashboard —
Happy New Year everyone!
Please join us on Tuesday, January 21 at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Dr. Brian Hendricks on "GIS Operations Dashboard."
About the presentation:
Public health decision making is becoming increasingly complex. Integration of GIS systems and spatial analysis help inform our r...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Quick tips for mastering the ArcGIS StoryMaps builder —
blog post with short, simple tips will help you get the most out of the story builder, especially when it comes to smaller features you may have overlooked.
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-storymaps/constituent-engagement/quick-tips-for-mastering-the-arcgis-storymaps-builder/
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Smithsonian Folkways Holiday Music Map —
Thank you everyone for your participation and involvement for our Spatial Analysis WG in 2019! Wanted to a little holiday cheer share.
Smithsonian Folkways Holiday Music Map
A "singing map" featuring traditional holiday music from the collection of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the nonprofi...
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Chris Ryan •
Untitled —
[Please feel free to share this invitation with like-minded colleauges.]
With the advent of a robust common database structure (National EMS
Information System or NEMSIS), and further motivated by the burgeoning
opioid and overdose epidemic (although by no means limited to that
topic), data from...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
Sponsored Travel to 2020 Annual Conference —
CSTE is able to offer travel funding to support a limited number of travelers to attend the workshop and the 2020 CSTE Annual Conference. Travel funds may include airfare, conference registration, hotel accommodations, and per diem in accordance with Seattle rates and the 2020 CSTE Annual Confer...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
December Webinar —
Please join us on Tuesday, December 17th at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Adam Readhead, PhD on "Spatial Distribution of TB in Los Angeles County."
About the presentation:
Information on the spatial distribution of TB disease in Los Angeles County could help local tailor public health action to reduce...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
November webinar: Cancelled —
Hi everyone,
Please note that our November call (11/19) is cancelled. Please stay tuned for an announcement for our December call.
Best,
Alyaa
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
October Webinar: Using Google Distance API to Estimate Health Care Access —
Please join us on Tuesday, October 15th at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Tabbasum Insaf, MD, MPH on "Using Google Distance API to Estimate Health Care Access- A Case Study from the New York State Congenital Heart Defects Surveillance Project."
About the presentation:
Road network API providers collect...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 7 maps that tell the incredible story of aging in America —
Another fun use of maps
https://www.fastcompany.com/90339099/7-maps-that-tell-the-incredible-story-of-aging-in-america
7 maps that tell the incredible story of aging in America
America is aging, but not evenly.
Find out how this major demographic shift will impact your community in these maps...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 How the nation’s growing racial
diversity is changing our schools —
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/school-diversity-data/
Interest visualizations and map to explore your school district - Find out the overall racial makeup of your school district and how well that’s mirrored in individual schools. The map currently shows the diversity of scho...
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Alexander Evans •
Drone mapping —
Does anyone have experience or resources for using drones to collect data for environmental health or preparedness activities? We are considering getting a drone to use for some of our EH sections (like water quality, vector) and would like to get an idea of what a local public health drone progr...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Geospatial Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in US Rivers and Streams - Wed, Sep 18, 2019 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT —
Register Now for September 18 Webinar Register for Webinar
The overuse of antimicrobials poses a serious threat to public health by promoting the development of antimicrobial resistance in humans, animals, and the environment. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
September Webinar: Rate Stabilizing Tool —
Please join us on Tuesday, September 17 at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Joshua Tootoo and Ruiyang Li on "Use and training related to the Rate Stabilizing Tool."
About the presentation:
Our speakers will introduce a new tool that has been developed collaboratively with CDC, local and state health dep...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 data.census.gov: Navigating a New Site for Census Bureau Data —
Discover how to use data.census.gov, the new site to access Census Bureau data. With American Fact Finder no longer releasing new data, 2017 Economic Census and 2018 American Community Survey data will be available exclusively on data.census.gov.
In this webinar, you will learn how to access t...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 A Tour of Demographics in the Living Atlas —
A Tour of Demographics in the Living Atlas
The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World contains demographic data to help you learn more about the population and how they live.
Within the People category in the Living Atlas, you'll find ready-to-use data layers, web maps, and applications. Kick star...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 ESRI Training Seminar - Meet the New ArcGIS StoryMaps, 8/29/2019 several times available (12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. EST) —
https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/5d2f7a456b9c17664bb0078b/meet-the-new-arcgis-storymaps/
The next-generation of storytelling with maps is here.
Esri's storytelling tools have been completely reengineered from the ground up. Using ArcGIS StoryMaps, it's easier than ever to craft visually app...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
August webinar: If you build it, the data will come —
Please join us Tuesday, August 20 at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Kevin Berg on "If you build it, the data will come: An overview of Colorado Tracking’s workflow for prospective spatio-temporal disease surveillance at the county and sub-county level."
About the presentation:
Routine surveillance of ...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Spatial Statistics ESRI Website —
Not sure if people are aware of this site - https://spatialstats.github.io/
Great place for spatial statistics if you are using ArcGIS Desktop or Pro.
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
July Webinar —
Please join us Tomorrow, July 16 at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Brooke Reams on "Ensuring Confidentiality of Geographically Sensitive Data."
About the presentation:
Mapping address-based data is essential to understanding spatial patterns, correlations, and associations. However, address-based da...
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💡 Request for information by
Svetlana •
💡 How to map incidents without misleading? —
Hi all,
I'd like a recommendation on how not to lie with a map. :-) We're mapping various incidents, such as environmental spills or complaints. However, the number of spills or complaints naturally would be higher in areas with more population, more industry, and more transportation corridors...
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Chris Ryan •
protecting confidentiality of a spatial point pattern —
Hi everyone. I'm looking for your perspectives and suggestions on this. I have geocoded point locations of a health event (cases) and non-events (controls), in an area of about 5500 km^2. A colleague, who is not authorized to have the true data, is developing a new method of modeling case-control...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
June call: "Overview of Survey123 for ArcGIS functionality" —
Please join us Tomorrow, June 18 at 1:00pm EDT to hear from Ismael Chivite, an ESRI Senior Product Manger. With over 20 years of GIS experience, Chivite is passionate about building ArcGIS products that help organizations use geography to improve the way they work.
WebEx Information:
Call-in n...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 (Who will be) America's Next Big Mapping Company? —
Blog Post Share - interesting blog post from Paul Ramsay -
http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2019/06/next-mapping.html
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Jessica Arrazola •
Optional Webinars: Rate Stabilizing Tool —
The Rate Stabilizing Tool (RST) is an ArcGIS-based tool that enables users to input their own record-level data to generate reliable, local-level age-standardized measures of chronic disease (e.g., prevalence, incidence, mortality) or other population health outcomes. The RST uses Bayesian modell...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 CSTE 2019 Raleigh, NC —
If you are headed to Raleigh next week Ricardo and I are hoping to meet you at the conference.
Thanks for your participation and ongoing support of our Spatial Analysis WG.
Scott & Ricardo
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
May Webinar Cancelled —
Hi everyone,
Please note there will not be a spatial analysis webinar next week (5/21). However, we will resume our schedule in June (3rd Tuesday of the month at 1pm EST) following CSTE annual conference.
We do have speakers lined up for June, July, and August. You can find our calendar for fu...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
Optional Webinars: Data Explorer Tutorial —
Greetings, all - You’re invited to join members of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program for a Data Explorer Tutorial. This webinar is open to the general public that will guide you through creating and personalizing your own data visualization using the Tracking Program’s fre...
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📈 Webinar by
Ricardo Contreras •
📈 Free Spatial Interpolation with ArcGIS PRO webinar —
Good morning, Spatial Analysis Workgroup members,
ESRI is offering a free 1-hour Spatial Interpolation webinar tomorrow (May 2nd). Hope you can register and attend.
https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/5c92b940fa73df28264fb8ed/spatial-interpolation-with-arcgis-pro/?adumkts=training&aduc=email...
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Scott Troppy •
GIS Resources —
Thought I would share a nice reference list provided by ESRI - I am taking the free Cartography MOOC Class and they just posted a reference list.
https://www.esri.com/training/mooc/[Additional_Resources_for_Cartography_MOOC.pdf]
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Jessica Arrazola •
article: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Registrations Using Geoimputation and Joinpoint Analysis. —
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30969280
With your CSTE membership you have access to the full text via the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
OBJECTIVE:Tobacco quitlines provide free smoking cessation telephone services to smokers interested in quitting tobacco. We aimed to ...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
April Webinar: Review of Spatial Analysis Workgroup Survey and 123Survey for ArcGIS Demo —
Please join us TODAY- April 16 at 1:00pm EDT to hear from our two workgroup chairs, Scott Troppy and Ricardo Contreras as they review the findings from their assessment and demo 123Survey for ArcGIS. There will also be an opportunity to discuss next steps for the workgroup. We encourage you join ...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
Optional Webinar: Data Visualization Tools and Resources —
Hello everyone,
You’re invited to join the PMO Workgroup and other members of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program for a training webinar on Data Visualization Tools & Resources. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, April 30 from 11:00-Noon PT/2:00-3:00 ET. Please find th...
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💡 Request for information by
Scott Troppy •
💡 My last plea (insert smile) to fill out the survey.....for the Spatial Analysis WG is today! —
Last chance to complete our survey is Wednesday, April 10th by 5 p.m. EST.
Link to survey: https://arcg.is/0bTmnC
Thanks - Ricardo/Scott
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💡 Request for information by
Scott Troppy •
💡 Please fill out our Survey for the Spatial Analysis Workgroup by Wednesday, 4/10 —
Last chance to complete our survey by Monday, April 10th.
Link to survey: https://arcg.is/0bTmnC
Thanks.
Ricardo and Scott
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💡 Request for information by
Scott Troppy •
💡 Request to complete the 2019 - Spatial Analysis Work-Group Survey —
As discussed on Tuesdays call - please complete our survey by Monday, April 1st.
Link to survey: https://arcg.is/0bTmnC
Thanks.
Ricardo and Scott
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Ricardo Contreras •
👍 Untitled —
Re: aggregating point data to polygons:
Question: How do we aggregate point data to polygons?
Answer: The easiest way to do this is using a spatial join of the point data with the polygon data (assume you are using ArcMap for this).
Please see attached pdf file for more details.
[Using spatia...
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Jonathan Bressler •
Travel Scholarships for 2019 CSTE Annual Conference —
Hi everyone. Looks like NACDD is providing funding for travel to Raleigh this June for GIS groupies! Check it out:
ELIGILBILITY: All state, local, tribal and territorial health department staff who use GIS for chronic disease prevention and control are eligible to apply, including those who hav...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
March Call: Using GIS and Spatial Analysis to Better Understand the Opioid Epidemic —
Please join us Tuesday, March 19 at 2:00pm EDT to hear from Erin Jacque, MPS, GISP on "GIS and Spatial Analysis: Project Work related to the Opioid Epidemic."
This webinar will be a brief overview of three projects focused on understanding the opioid epidemic (data, collaborators, analysis). Th...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
Interesting reads —
Why Does a Private Company Develop and Offer MOOCs?
Esri, a mapping software company based in Southern California, has developed and offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) for the last four years. Esri’s MOOC program has had 150,000 enrollments across five course titles. This is a company, n...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Scott Troppy •
👍 New Map Projection Meets Cartographic Needs and Desires —
For all GIS nerds:
Check out this interesting blog post around projections:
https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/equal-earth/
The Equal Earth projection was created in response to a wave of news stories in 2017 following the Boston Public Schools announcement that it was switching to th...
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👍 Of GIS interest by
Ricardo Contreras •
👍 How the 2020 Census will integrate GIS technology —
Good morning,
I'd like to share with you an interesting newspaper article about how GIS technology will make the 2020 Census a lot more data-efficient and save many trees in the process.
https://www.manhattantimesnews.com/census-2020-a-tech-takecenso-2020-una-version-tecnologica/
Thanks.
Rica...
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Jessica Arrazola •
California Health Assessment Tool —
By 2051, Colusa County, California could see an average maximum temperature of almost 106 degrees. As the climate warms, extreme heat events are also becoming more common—putting elderly or very young people, outdoor workers and individuals with preexisting health conditions or limited resources ...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 The Hidden Factor Affecting Employee Health (Blog post) —
Saw this post on LinkedIn and thought I would share.....
The Hidden Factor Affecting Employee Health (Blog post)
Nearly 80 percent of big businesses, and a growing number of small and midsize companies, self-insure their employees’ health coverage. On average, that costs a business more than $1...
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Malorie Polster •
Introducing the New Spatial Analysis Co-Chair! —
We are pleased to announce that Ricardo Contreras will be serving alongside Scott Troppy as co-chair of the Spatial Analysis Workgroup.
You may remember Ricardo Contreras, MPH, MA, GIS Certified, from his October presentation on creating a hot spot analysis using Python in ArcGIS. Ricardo is th...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Esri Health and Human Services Meetup - Navigating HIPAA in a Geospatial World —
Register if interested - they usually record it if you can't make the date/time.
Date and Time: February 28 at 11:00 a.m. (PT)
Navigating HIPAA in a Geospatial World
Data can be either useful or perfectly anonymous but never both. Unfortunately, this seems to be a foundational belief about data...
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👏 Sharing Information by
Scott Troppy •
👏 Interested in GIS MOOC's - online trainings —
MOOC
/mo͞ok/
noun
noun: MOOC; plural noun: MOOCs
1. a course of study made available over the Internet without charge to a very large number of people.
http://www.m2025-weobservatory.org/uploads/3/9/5/1/39512321/moocs_2018_gis.pdf
Check out the trainings and signup - a great way to learn about...
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💡 Request for information by
Scott Troppy •
💡 Need your assistance - SA Work Group Request —
Good evening - Thanks to everyone who presented and shared their work in 2018!!
We wanted to start off the 2019 WG year with a request from all of the members of our work group -------- Please reach out to your peers and local health partners who do work with spatial analysis or GIS related p...
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Malorie Polster •
Seeking New Spatial Analysis Co-Chair —
Co-Chair Application Announcement: We are looking for an active member to co-chair the Spatial Analysis workgroup with Scott Troppy. The role of the workgroup chair is to be CSTE’s subject matter expert and the public face of this workgroup's activities. This role will require approximately 1-3 h...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Get the Latest United States Census Data - Spatial Data Webinar Series Wed, Jan 9, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST —
Power your Workflows with the Living Atlas: American Community Survey Data
Kick off your new year right with newly released American Community Survey (ACS) data layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. These ready-to-use layers allow instant access to publicly available, fully documented, and...
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Alyaa Altabbaa •
A Discussion with CDC and Chance to Provide State Input on Issues and Challenges —
The Public Health and Health Care Analytics Workgroup invites you all to join their call this Thursday!
Join us this Thursday, January 10 at 1pm EST to hear from Von Nguyen, MD, MPH, the Deputy Associate Director for Policy and Strategy at the CDC. This is an excellent opportunity to share issu...
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Malorie Polster •
2019 CSTE Annual Conference Sponsored Travel form —
Good afternoon,
The request form for sponsorship to attend the 2019 CSTE Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC on June 2-6, 2019 closes this week. Travel funds may include airfare, conference registration, hotel accommodations, and per diem in accordance with Raleigh rates and the 2019 CSTE Annual ...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Save the date - 12/18/2018 - Jennifer Bell from ESRI will be our guest for the December WG call. Topic: "Express yourself (and your data!) with Arcade expressions"
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Please join us for the last webinar of 2018 -
With Arcade expressions, you can now have fun exploring your data with time saving customizations. Expressions give you the freedom to create new attributes on the fly which is especially useful when working with open data.
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Steven D Hinojosa •
👏 Spatial Data Security —
Hey everyone,
As mentioned on the call; I wanted to provide some links below that have been helpful in our department in regards to Spatial Analysis and Information/Data Security. Before utilizing these steps, always be aware of your protocols for data and population. It is important to not appl...
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✅ Work Group Webinar/Call by
Scott Troppy •
✅ Join us for the our November Spatial Analysis Workgroup Call on 11/20/2018 at 1 p.m. ET with Steven Hinojosa, PhD, MPH, CPH, Lead Epidemiologist at Hidalgo County Health and Human Services. —
Title: Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in a South Texas Metropolitan Community
This research study examines the spatial epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Hidalgo County, Texas. Invasive pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection, causing severe types of clinical manifestations...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 New maps show how neighborhoods across America shape children for life
The New York Times —
New maps show how neighborhoods across America shape children for life
The New York Times
Some places lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there. Now cities are trying to do something about the difference. Read the full story
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Scott Troppy •
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How to Smart Map: Heat Maps
A simple guide to using density within ArcGIS Online
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How to Smart Map: Heat Maps - A simple guide to using density within ArcGIS Online
This quick guide introduces a fast, simple way to effectively analyze point data using heat maps within smart mapping.
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Using R with ArcGIS: Learn How with These Free Lessons —
If interested in learning how to use R with ArcGIS check out this free lesson: Analyze Crime Using Statistics and the R-ArcGIS Bridge
Perform statistical analysis of crime data using the R-ArcGIS bridge. 2 hours
View final result Start lesson
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Scott Troppy •
👏 Resources from Tuesday's call - Story Maps —
[Story Map SOP.docx][storymap_testdata.csv]Couple resources from Tuesday's call:
Reed created a Story Map SOP and a test set (csv) of data for you to explore similar to data we used for our enteric/foodborne illness story maps (see attached). Contact us with any questions.
• Free 21 day ArcGIS ...
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Scott Troppy •
👏 How to choose symbology —
A creative way of using a Story Map to discuss/show how to choose symbology for your maps: https://arcg.is/nWWHL
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✅ Work Group Webinar/Call by
Scott Troppy •
✅ Join us today for our September WG Call, 9/18/2018 at 1 p.m. ET, with Reed Sherrill. Title: Demo of how to create a story map using a data set of enteric disease and demo of using ADA tools —
Join us for the our September Spatial Analysis Workgroup Call, 9/18/2018 at 1 p.m. ET, with Reed Sherrill, MA Dept of PH Research Analyst.
The call will include a demo of how to create a story map using a dataset of enteric disease data (Massachusetts data set) with direction on creating links...
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Jessica Arrazola •
Feedback needed for 2020 census —
Please see the below email (the first in the chain) regarding a question from the Census Bureau regarding how users utilize specific data tables at specific levels of geography (e.g., census block, school district, county subdivision) in research or for specific legal, statutory, or programmati...
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Scott Troppy •
New Demographic Feature Layers in the Living Atlas —
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/product/mapping/292062-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Feature Layers in the Living Atlas
by Julia Holtzclaw Mapping and Visualization | August 1, 2018
Esri Demographics has released a brand new set of hosted feature layers containing the l...
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Scott Troppy •
End of the Rainbow? New Map Scale is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind —
End of the Rainbow? New Map Scale is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind
The improved palette also avoids some of the problems existing data visualization schemes pose for people with typical vision
Betsy Mason
August 9, 2018
Data visualizations using rainbow color scales are ubiquitou...
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Scott Troppy •
Interesting Story Map on Addressing Homelessness in LA County —
Check it out with this link: https://arcg.is/zD98H
https://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/map-monday-addressing-homelessness-la-county
Also a great website to checkout: https://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/
Homelessness is on the rise in cities throughout the US. While networks of organiz...
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Scott Troppy •
Join us for the our August WG Call, 8/21/2018 at 1 p.m. ET, with Jennifer Kret. Title: Relating the Social Vulnerability Index to Emergency Department Visits for Asthma in Saint Louis County —
Title: Relating the Social Vulnerability Index to Emergency Department Visits for Asthma in Saint Louis County, Missouri
In St. Louis County, Missouri, there were over 32,000 emergency department (ED) visits for asthma between 2010 and 2014. In 2014, the ED visit rate for asthma among St. Louis...
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Scott Troppy •
Video's from the ESRI User Conference, 2018 —
Relive the Inspiration of the Esri UC Plenary Session
Videos from the 2018 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) Plenary Session are now available. Whether you want to revisit Jack Dangermond's opening Keynote Address and the inspiring user success stories, or take a deep dive into the newest GIS adva...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 “ArcGIS Pro: The Good, The Bad and Ugly” Webinar hosted by the NY State GIS Association —
Good Morning GIS Community Member!
The New York State GIS Association invites you to register for the upcoming webinar on Wednesday July 25, “ArcGIS Pro: The Good, The Bad and Ugly,” hosted by Tripp Corbin the CEO of eGIS Associates, Inc
This webinar will help you get started as you evaluate A...
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Evan Caten •
Mapping in R (in 10 steps) —
I ran across this post and wanted to share with those using R for mapping. Many useful techniques and tools presented here (in a very approachable manner) for those with some familiarity with R. If you're looking to get an intro to R for mapping - this could be a great starting point.
https://...
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Jessica Arrazola •
Tuesday, July 17th Workgroup Call —
Please join our upcoming workgroup call on Tuesday, July 17th at 1pm ET. Diana Lavery, Content Product Engineer, from ESRI will be presenting “From web maps to Story Map: showcase your work in a compelling way.” She will present examples of effective web maps that display Hospital Compare data ...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Webinar Opportunity - "Data Driven Local Government Similarities" on 6/26/2018 from 12-1 p.m. (NY State GIS Association) —
Register now for the New York State GIS Association's upcoming webinar on Tuesday June 26th (12pm - 1pm), “ Data Driven Local Government Similarities ,” hosted by Mickey Dietrich of the NYS Tug Hill Commission.
Mickey plans to show how census and other data was utilized to find commonalities...
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Scott Troppy •
MA Story Maps —
At the Epi Methods Wednesday morning meeting I said I would post our story maps that we have been working for enteric and waterborne diseases - still a work in progress but wanted to share nonetheless.
Enterics: https://arcg.is/0Lm99C0
Legionella: https://arcg.is/GOjjn
Let me know if you have a...
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Scott Troppy •
Tuesday, June 19th Work-Group Call - Cancelled —
Good evening - It was nice to meet many of you at CSTE last week in West Palm Beach - as discussed at the Epi Methods round-table on Wednesday morning please let Evan or I know if you have any thoughts on speakers/presenters for the 2018-19 season. Or YOU can present on a topic or project you are...
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📈 Webinar by
Scott Troppy •
📈 Moving Towards Health Equity with GIS Webinar, Thursday 6/7 at 2PM ET/11AM PT from Esri —
Thought I would share this one -
Moving Towards Health Equity with GIS - 1 hour webinar
Many factors play into health equity: access to healthy foods, quality healthcare, jobs, community support, and social determinants of health among others. The opioid and homelessness epidemics are two issu...
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Steven D Hinojosa •
CSTE Conference in June —
Hey everyone,
This is Steven with Hidalgo County HHSD, Texas. Hope all is well. Sorry, I was unable to make the last call, so this may have already been discussed. I was interested in seeing who will be attending the CSTE conference in a couple weeks. Also to see if there are any Spatial Analysi...
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Scott Troppy •
Mapping Demographics Data With Some NYBBLES As A Side - webinar —
Just a friendly reminder, there is still time to register for the New York State GIS Association's upcoming webinar on Thursday May 17th, “Mapping Demographics Data With Some NYBBLES As A Side,” hosted by Jan Vink, an Extension Associate at the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics.
Jan plans...
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Scott Troppy •
Join the "Introducing the SQUAD Tool: A tool for identifying anomalies in large spatial data sets" webinar —
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Join MEASURE Evaluation on May 31 at 9:30 a.m. EDT for a one-hour webinar introducing the Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis (SQUAD) Tool, now compatible with both ArcGIS and QGIS. The webinar will be led by John Spencer, senior geographic information systems (GIS) technical spe...
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Jessica Arrazola •
Call for Papers on Population Health, Place, and Space: Spatial Perspectives in Chronic Disease Research and Practice —
Announcement posted 2/13/18 - https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/announcements.htm/
Deadline for Submission: August 31, 2018
PCD welcomes submissions for this upcoming collection, which highlights the variety of ways in which geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analyses are being applied to e...
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Jessica Arrazola •
Webinar: Health Matters, Place Matters - The Health Opportunity indx —
Please join ASTHO on May 23, 2018 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST for the training webinar: In Health Matters, Place Matters -The Health Opportunity Index (HOI)! The Virginia Department of Health, Office of Health Equity team will provide an in-depth presentation highlighting how Please join us o...
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Brooke Happ •
May 22nd Webinar on Geographic Standardization from MN Population Center —
Hi everyone! I am passing along some info I received about a webinar on May 22 for anyone who may be interested in the topics!
Greetings, all –
Please join us on May 22nd at 11am PT/2pm ET for two presentations on geographic standardization from the Minnesota Population Center. Inspired by o...
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Scott Troppy •
US population disperses to suburbs, exurbs, rural areas, and “middle of the country” metros —
Interesting stories using spatial demographic data....
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brookings.edu_blog_the-2Davenue_2018_03_26_us-2Dpopulation-2Ddisperses-2Dto-2Dsuburbs-2Dexurbs-2Drural-2Dareas-2Dand-2Dmiddle-2Dof-2Dthe-2Dcountry-2Dmetros_amp_-3F-5F-5Ftwitter-5Fimpre...
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Evan Caten •
SaTScan Cluster Detection Tool —
https://www.satscan.org/
The landing page for the satscan tool - for more detailed info and references about this software and its underpinnings.
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Evan Caten •
Validation of SaTScan for Cluster Surveillance - MA (Northeast Epi Conf 2018) —
http://www.northeastbranchasm.org/neb/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Burns_SaTScan_NEEpi.pdf
This presentation gives a brief overview of the MA implementation of cluster detection system.
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Evan Caten •
Paper: Daily, prospective cluster detection in NYC —
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5038417/
Sharon Greene's (NYC) shared her work and advice with MA and it formed the basis for the daily cluster detection process that MA infectious disease is running now.
This paper gives a good overview and has links to the raw source code and det...
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Scott Troppy •
Paper: Global risk mapping for major diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus —
http://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(17)30308-9/fulltext?elsca1=etoc&elsca2=email&elsca3=1201-9712_201802_67__&elsca4=Infectious%20Diseases
Just popped up on my listserv thought I would share:
Abstract
Objectives
The objective of this study was to map the global risk of the ...
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Scott Troppy •
some links for story maps (via ESRI).... —
We eventually want to host Diana Lavey, Product Engineer of ESRI on a future call to talk about Story Maps.....in the meantime thought I would share some links about Story Maps for those of you who are not familar.
•Example Story Maps: Esri Story Map Gallery
•Official Help Page: Storymaps.arcgis...
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Chris Ryan •
online course in geospatial data mapping with qgis —
https://www.statistics.com/geospatial-data-mapping-with-qgis/?inf_contact_key=6178dadadd5fdd367241e83d07ab4f7233dddd717ceca9ad8f508aeb06737dac
In case anyone might be interested.
I've taken two spatial statistics courses (but not this one) with this outfit before and they were pretty good. I h...
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Scott Troppy •
Survey for today's attendance, Jan 16 2018 —
https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/98043403373947c9af41e8ff5ad79162
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Scott Troppy •
Couple links around maps and health disparities —
1. http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc15/papers/1155_562.pdf
2. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=55a2ba3859954f4aa0a315b03a7a0f83
3. http://graphics.latimes.com/healthcare-disparity/
4. https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/washhigh/highlights2016/457444/032516cmsreleasesinteractive...
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Evan Caten •
Call for topics & presenters for February 2018 webinar! —
To all participants,
We are looking for your suggestions for upcoming webinar topics and presenters. We've seen a few great ideas on this and we hope to add to this and discuss them on the next call.
Thanks
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Svetlana •
Public Health Geocoding standards —
In reply to Eric H. Campfire post about setting geocoding standards for public health... I don't know if a formal standard exists (e.g. like what Open Geospatial Consortium would develop), but there has been a large volume of work on PH geocoding in early- to mid-2000's, covering the issues we d...
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Chris Ryan •
Opioid overdoses as a spatial point process —
I humbly share this link to some work I presented at CSTE 2017 in Boise, demonstrating clustering of naloxone-involved EMS calls, over and above the clustering that is to be expected among EMS calls in general. I'm now working on models that would explain that clustering. I'd welcome comments an...
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Fenfang Li •
Session password —
Aloha all,
This is Fenfang from Hawaii. What is the password to join this session? I do not recall to receive that.
Thanks,
Fenfang
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Evan Caten •
January 16th Meeting Discussion (health disparities) —
Please share your thoughts on spatial analysis and disparities. Specifically, whether you would like to present your work (or others') for the group. Looking for approximately 30 m followed by discussion.
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Scott Troppy •
Disease Mapping: New Technology Meets an Ancient Discipline —
Interesting blog post
https://sidewalklabs.com/blog/disease-mapping-new-technology-meets-an-ancient-discipline/
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Jessica Arrazola •
Kicking off this project —
Hey all!
Looking forward to getting the new Spatial Analysis workgroup started.
We'll keep all the to-dos, important deadlines, and files we'll need here in this Basecamp project.
If you have a quick question and you don't know who to ask, jump into the Campfire and ask away. If you want feedb...
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