Every time you check your weather app, navigate with GPS, or track a package on its journey to your doorstep, you’re using the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). While most people interact with GIS daily without even realizing it, this behind-the-scenes...
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Free Vesta Workshop in Hartford, CT
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Mar 10, 2025 | BioMedware News, Learn with BioMedware
Vesta Workshop May 31-June 1, 2025 We are excited to announce the upcoming workshop, "Introduction to Geospatial Temporal Analysis with Vesta," scheduled for May 31 to June 1, 2025, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. This two-day event precedes the...
A Personal Foray into Rewilding – The Prairie
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Apr 30, 2024 | Learn with BioMedware
In “Sand County Almanac” Aldo Leopold recounts a story of restoration of an aged Wisconsin farm, played out and abandoned, the land worn, furrowed, and unproductive. Over the years, Aldo was able to restore the soil, the landscape and the habitat, turning back the...
Perils of Pareidolia and AI: Can AI find disease clusters?
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Nov 27, 2023 | Geospatial Data & Analysis, Learn with BioMedware
A major problem in the geospatial analysis of health events is identifying “true” excesses in health outcomes and disease risk. Most cancers, for example, occur at a “background” rate, often due to the underlying DNA mutation rate. This background mutation rate is...
BioMedware Space-Time Analysis Workshop At Louisiana State University
by Ioana Nadra | Jun 6, 2023 | Learn with BioMedware
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS) and BioMedware are pleased to announce a workshop providing FREE in-person training on BioMedware software for GIS data. The software is used for the visualization, analysis, modeling, and interactive exploration of...
Ebola and “R naught”
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 22, 2014 | Learn with BioMedware
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...
Drones, skyjacks, and business ecosystems
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Aug 27, 2014 | Learn with BioMedware
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. If you consider drone piracy to be a business model (and I guess it should be...
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...
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...
Researchers suggest geographic boundary analysis to detect shift in species distributions in response to climate change
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Quantifying the spatial relationship between bird species’ distributions and landscape feature boundaries in southern Ontario, Canada