GIS Portfolio – Matt Wagstaff

The Financial Inclusion Map: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/ng-interactive/2015/nov/19/who-saves-the-least-money-financial-exclusion-around-the-world-interactive-borrowing-savings-finance This map was created by an interactive studio/company based in the UK called Kiln (https://www.kiln.digital/) to be published on the website of The Guardian newspaper. The studio has made many interesting and varied data visualisations that can be viewed on their website such as the carbon map (http://www.carbonmap.org/) and the digital divide (http://scidev.live.kiln.digital/digitaldivide/). The author of the map and the data source are listed clearly at the bottom of the map with links to these pages. The data to create the map was sourced from…read more

The Syrian conflict and associated refugee crisis has been ongoing since 2011 with many countries receiving applications from displaced persons for refugee status. While many Western countries have made pledges to assist these displaced Syrians, have their actions lived up to these words? As part of an assignment for GEOB 472 we were tasked with producing an infographic that could accompany an article on the status of Syrian refugee claims in various countries, in a publication such as The Globe and Mail. The objective of this infographic was to help Canadian…read more