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Announcing the Release of SpaceStat 4: software for the visualization, analysis, modeling and interactive exploration of spatiotemporal data
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | May 3, 2014 | BioMedware News
Download a Free 14-day evaluation of SpaceStat SpaceStat 4.0 represents a major reworking of the underlying architecture of the application. Multithreading has been introduced improving the performance of many methods. A LePace-Sage estimator for spatial-error...
Dr. Jacquez recently participated in the Swedish Collaboration on Health Roundtable
by Susan Hinton | Apr 12, 2014 | BioMedware News
Source: CRCSI Newsletter Representatives from the CRCSI were invited by Future Position X to attend the GeoLife Research Program Roundtable in Gavle, Sweden. The group participated in an intense series of discussions and meetings over four days to advance the...
The quantified self and crowd sourcing of the genome+, exposome and behavome: Perspective and call for action
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jan 28, 2014 | Learn with BioMedware
by Geoffrey M. Jacquez1,2 and Robert Rommel2 1. Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 2. BioMedware, Ann Arbor MI Introduction: Perhaps one of the greatest challenges and limitations in environmental health and epidemiology is...
Our Changing World: Soil Mapping (Podcast – Radio New Zealand)
by Susan Hinton | Dec 10, 2013 | BioMedware News
Landcare Research scientists are using mobile spectroscopy to analyse soil, allowing geostatisticians to create better soil maps.From Our Changing World, 9:20 pm on 21 November 2013 Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, from BioMedware, explained how the complex...
Geostatistics short course – Perth, Western Australia
by Susan Hinton | Oct 25, 2013 | BioMedware News
In conjunction with CRCSI and WALIS Forum 2013, Dr. Goovaerts will conduct a short course November 6th and 7th. The course will increase your understanding of geostatistics and its application to several disciplines. After completion of this course you will be well...
A commentary on the Behavome and Genetic GIS
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Sep 5, 2013 | Learn with BioMedware
Recently, I coined the term “Behavome” as the totality of an individual’s behaviors that mediate exposures (the exposome) and gene expression (the genome). This construct matters because it largely defines the determinants of human health. Figure 1 This schematic...
Thoughts from Austin: NAACCR Annual Meeting
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jun 12, 2013 | Article
This week I am attending the meetings of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries that is being held in Austin, Texas. The topic of this year’s conference is “Thinking big, the future of cancer surveillance”, and I’m involved in two activities. The...
CRCSI GSN Round Table: International health research collaboration
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Apr 25, 2013 | BioMedware News
Funding into international joint innovation and research projects for 10 years was the focus of a Global Spatial Network Round Table Meeting in Sweden. Future Position X (FPX) will submit the funding proposal to the Swedish government in May. The Round Table meeting...
Update from SXSW 2013: On citizen sensors and emerging technologies
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Mar 12, 2013 | BioMedware News
What is the future of geohealth? One of the gaps in our knowledge is the lack of near real-time data on the ambient environment people experience as they go about their daily lives. This is changing rapidly with the advent of location enabled devices and wearable...
SXSW 2013: Mobile Health and the new era of Citizen Science
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Mar 11, 2013 | Article
Yesterday, I traveled to the meetings at SXSW in Austin, Texas. I’m attending the interactive session, and you may be able to find me at these events. Yes, I’ve doubled and triple scheduled some of the time slots, but there is so much going on here in the mobile...