Excess Deaths and New Data: Beginning a New Replication of Chakraborty’s Study
For my final project, I returned to Chakraborty’s study to do a reanalysis using excess deaths instead of COVID-19 deaths, using data from 2020 rather than 2...
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2023
Geographic Threats to Validity in Chakraborty’s Study
One geographic threat to validity for our Chakraborty reproduction study includes spatial heterogeneity; there are distinct areas where the pandemic spread e...
Reflecting on the Kang Study
With the Kang study, we continued to work with Python, which is a new programming language to me. I gained more familiarity reading Python syntax and working...
Smooth Sailing with the Spielman Study
For this reproduction, we were interested to know if weighting the SoVI components by percent variance would improve internal consistency or theoretical cons...
Social Vulnerability Models and the Importance of their Reproducibility and Replicibility
It is important to reproduce social vulnerability models because they are an important way in which scientists are responding to environmental hazards. Makin...
The Trials and Tribulations of Reproducing the Malcomb Study
Coming into this study, there were already many decisions Malcomb made that I felt a little skeptical about. For one, the interviews were an integral part in...
Uncertainty in GIScience
My senior year of high school, I was interested in looking at indie and chain bookstores in Washington DC over a period of 20 years, comparing where they wer...
A Reflection on My Contributions to the Chakraborty Reproduction Study
Coming into this reproduction study, I felt a little apprehensive as I scrolled through the lines of code. I wasn’t sure exactly how I could contribute, but ...
The Role of Open Source in Geographic Research
Open Source can help solve a lot of problems for the reproducibility crisis for geography, but it still has some limitations. At this point, I think that Ope...
Is GIS a Science?
Science is a process in which people work to produce new knowledge by asking and answering questions.The lack of reproducibility makes it difficult to verify...