Frank
I presented a poster last April on the library’s GIS and Data Services at the CHAIRS-C conference at the Brown School of Public Health. CHAIRS-C is an acronym for Center on Heat, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities; it’s a small cluster whose members are interested...
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Last December, the Data Rescue Project (DRP) finished an initiative to download and archive over 400 geospatial data layers from the defunct HIFLD Open repository to DataLumos, an ICPSR-sponsored repository for federal government datasets. I wrote this brief post that summarized our work. The...
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While spending February buried under snow here in Providence, I took the opportunity to update several of the data products we create here at GeoData@SciLi. I’ll provide a summary of what we’re working on in this post. The heading for each project links to its GitHub repo, where you can access the...
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Some good news to end the year: the Data Rescue Project has finished archiving all of the GIS data layers that were in the HIFLD Open portal, which was decommissioned at the end of summer. I wrote a post for the DRP that summarized the work we did, and you can find all the layers in ICPSR’s...
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I visit courses to guest lecture on census data every semester, and one of the primary topics is immigrant or ethnic communities in the US. There are many different variables in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) that can be used to study different groups: Race, Hispanic or Latino...
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Just when we thought the US government couldn’t possibly become more dysfunctional, it shut down completely on Sept 30, 2025. Government websites are not being updated, and many have gone offline. I’ve had trouble accessing data.census.gov; access has been intermittent, and sometimes it has worked...