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Yair Atlas
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago
Project: Making Spatial Access Measures Accessible: A New Python Package and AWS Tool
Mentors/Lab: Dr. James Saxon & Dr. Julia Koschinsky/Center for Spatial Data Science
Research Area Keywords: Medicine & Health // Spatial Data
I worked on a project aiming to help researchers calculate spatial access with a very simple interface. I made a website which allows users to easily calculate how easily people living in a certain location have access to a certain resource. This can be used to determine where there isn’t enough healthcare and other important goods.
Project News: The PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library) package in which this research project culminated is now available online.