Contrary to popular belief, geospatial data is all around us. So much so that it’s difficult to think of data that is not geospatial. Geospatial data arises whenever events occur at specific geographic locations, such as disease cases in a specific area. Think of...
Geospatial Data & Analysis Posts
Geospatial Cryptography: enabling researchers to access private, spatially referenced, human subjects data for cancer control and prevention
by Susan Hinton | Sep 5, 2017 | Geospatial Data & Analysis
Protecting confidentiality is mission-critical across the health care continuum, yet poses obstacles for the sharing and analysis of health data. Â Recent advances in cryptography support the analysis of confidential data in the encrypted space (e.g. make it...
Impact of comorbidities on prostate cancer stage at diagnosis in Florida
by Susan Hinton | Mar 9, 2015 | Geospatial Data & Analysis
URO Today recently published the abstract of a research study by authors Xiao H, Tan F, Goovaerts P, Adunlin G, Ali AA, Gwede CK, and Huang Y. "To examine the association of major types of comorbidity with late-stage prostate cancer, a...

