{"id":2087,"date":"2020-01-06T20:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/?post_type=pt_people&#038;p=2087"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:11:24","slug":"yair-atlas","status":"publish","type":"pt_people","link":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/people\/yair-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yair Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Project: Making Spatial Access Measures Accessible:\u00a0A New Python Package and AWS Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentors\/Lab:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/saxon.harris.uchicago.edu\/\">Dr. James Saxon<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/spatial.uchicago.edu\/directories\/full\/all\">Dr. Julia Koschinsky<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/spatial.uchicago.edu\/\">Center for Spatial Data Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Area Keywords:<\/strong> Medicine &amp; Health \/\/ Spatial Data<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t enough healthcare and other important goods.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Project News:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>The PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library) package in which this research project culminated is now <a href=\"https:\/\/access.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/#methods\">available<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2088,"template":"","people_type":[],"yst_prominent_words":[456,1536,153,1641,141,1640,157,1535,1639,581],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people\/2087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pt_people"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_type?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}