In our fast-paced world, rapid analysis is essential to reach plausible explanations with known amounts of certainty. Researchers have previously identified endeavors where Vesta provides forecasting and an understanding of the current determinants. Vesta offers...
When working with real-world data, mistakes can happen. Sensors break or equipment malfunctions, and then what? This is where the concept of missing data, also known as missing values, comes into play. What is Missing Data? Missing data occur when you don’t have...
Modern technology wouldn’t be possible without geographical data. People use geographical data in their daily lives, whether they notice it or not! Have you ever used a GPS to find the best route to get to work? That’s geographical data at work! Geographical data is...
There are 2 categories of data utilized in geographic information systems: Vector Data and Raster Data. This distinction goes back to the founding days of GIS technology, when there were two major types of geographic information systems, one worked with raster data...
On the surface, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial analysis can seem quite mysterious. Where does all that data come from? How can it be rendered into maps? Is it really possible to ask questions about maps—to use them for analysis? Let’s take a...
Geospatial analytics gathers geographic information system (GIS) data from multiple types of technology to help you understand environmental, demographic, and topographic trends. But you may be surprised to learn that you use GIS technology in your daily life. Let's...
Vesta: Visualization and Exploratory Space-Time data Analysis software This project is pursuing the development and release of new software, Vesta, funded by SBIR grants from NIEHS and NCI to Pierre Goovaerts at BioMedware. Future blog updates will cover some of the...
Two proposal tips We write a fair number of research proposals, with most of them going to the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and surveillance. We also submit proposals to the National Science Foundation and NASA. For those...
There is a certain amount of false information regarding how infectious the Ebola virus is, see, for example, some of the statements by certain Congressman. Mathematical epidemiologists use something called "R naught",​ the basic reproductive number, to quantify how...
A business venue being explored by Amazon and smaller companies as well is delivery via drones. Interesting to see that the technology for skyjacking drones is already being pursued. Â If you consider drone piracy to be a business model (and I guess it should be...