Announcing Our Membership in Esri’s Business Partner Network and the Release of SpaceStat 3 with Geodatabase File Format Integration
I am very excited by our release of SpaceStat 3, which links BioMedware to Esri technology using the geodatabase file format and is an important step towards addressing unmet needs in data access and geohealth analysis techniques. This is very timely, as...
BioMedware Joins Esri Partner Network
Partnership Provides an Easy Way for Esri Users to Add SpaceStat’s Advanced Space-Time Analysis Into Their Workflows Ann Arbor, MI – Sept. 6, 2011 – BioMedware, a leader in geohealth software development and research solutions, today announced its membership in the...
A Vision for Geohealth Analysis, and Geohealth Solutions in SpaceStat
Others have blogged on the directions for Esri technology, the emerging role of GIS-in-the-cloud, crowd-sourcing data, and the potentials for social networking in geohealth. I attended the recent Esri International User Conference (UC) and realized that,...
vacciNATION: Improving the nation’s health through health communication, social networks and gaming?
NOTE: vacciNATION is currently running with data from the 2012 season. This blog introduces an app BioMedware developed in response to CDC’s Flu App Challenge. This challenge calls for an innovative use of technology to raise awareness of influenza and educate...
It’s About Space and Time: From the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) to the Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem (MTUP) to the Modifiable Spatio-Temporal Unit Problem (MSTUP)
I recently returned from the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, which convened in Seattle in April, 2011. While there I had the opportunity to attend a few of the featured sessions on space-time geography. This special series, with...
The small numbers problem–Part 2
Using persistence in spatial time series as a diagnostic for extreme rates in small areas. In my last blog on the small numbers problem, we found that rates calculated with small denominators (e.g. small at-risk populations) have high variance and we thus have little...
Lowering the drinking age is unlikely to curb college binge drinking
Although presidents at some U.S. colleges have argued that lowering the minimum legal drinking age could help curb binge drinking on campuses, a new study in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs suggests such a measure would be ineffective....
Highlights from SETAC 2010: Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Global Climate Change
The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is a non-profit, worldwide professional society comprised of individuals and institutions engaged in: 1) the study, analysis, and solution of environmental problems, 2) the management and regulation of...
The small numbers problem Part 1: What you see is not necessarily what you get
The ability to quickly create maps of health outcomes such as cancer incidence and mortality in counties, census areas and even Zip codes is now available through websites and data portals. (See for example Atlasplus, State Cancer Profiles, and Cardiovascular Disease,...