With my partner, Templar, we focussed on the following three articles.<\/p>\n
A summary of another presentation<\/span>, which I thought to be interesting, can be found at the very bottom of this section.<\/span><\/p>\n Other students presented their own articles, provided summaries and implications of their review. A presentation which I found particularly interesting was a review made about: “GIS-based analysis of obesity and the built environment\u00a0in the US” by Yanqing Xu and Lei Wang – the presentation was made by Connor. The review was interesting, and unlike all other presentations which all attributed relatively high scores to their article, this review gave its paper a 6\/10. The objective of the analysis by Xu and Lei was to examine the relationship between built environment and obesity between counties of states US states using geographically weighted regression. Although the analysis omitted a lot of variables such as age, gender, income, education level and such, the results showed that in most counties, poverty rate, street connectivity, and walk score played a role in obesity\u00a0rates, and that the impact of the variables varied spatially across counties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part of the course focussed on reviewing 3 scholarly articles written about GIS. The three assignments were each focussed on Landscape Ecology and GIS Health Geography and GIS Crime Analysis and GIS With my partner, Templar, we focussed on the … Continue reading \n
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<\/p>\nSummary of Connor’s presentation\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n