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Penn GIS Day 2024

We are excited to invite you to celebrate GIS Day 2024, a day dedicated to the fascinating world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Whether you're a GIS enthusiast, a seasoned professional, or just curious about the power of maps and spatial data, this event is for you!

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November 20, 2024, 10:00am - 4:00pm
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Research Data & Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 1st floor
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Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
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This year's GIS Day event at Penn is also special as we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program! This event will bring together students, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals to explore the latest advancements in GIS and urban and environmental spatial analytics.

GIS Day 2024 is hosted by the Research Data and Digital Scholarship, Penn Libraries, and the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA), Weitzman School of Design. Our sponsor is The Penn Institute for Urban Research (PennIUR). PennIUR is dedicated to advancing cross-disciplinary urban-focused research, instruction, and civic engagement on issues relevant to cities around the world.

Let's come together to celebrate the impact of GIS on our world and inspire the next generation of geospatial thinkers. For inquiries, please contact LibraryGIS@pobox.upenn.edu.

Keynote Address: Exploring Cities through the Lens of Urban Analytics 

Andrew Crooks, Professor within the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo (UB), will deliver a keynote address at noon. Register using the link above.

For the first time in human history, more people are living in cities than rural areas and this trend is only expected to grow in the coming decades. This growth will place unprecedented challenges on cites with respect to sustainable development especially in light of climate change and increasing populations. One way to explore and understand cities is through the lens of urban analytics, a set of methods that allow us to monitor, analyze and model urban areas. 

This talk will explore how urban analytics has changed over time and showcase how our understanding of cities has benefited from it. Andrew Crooks will showcase how new sources of data can be used to monitor and analyze cities and how in turn these can be integrated into models to explore various aspects of city life from pedestrian movement to urban growth. The talk will conclude with a discussion and demonstration of how artificial intelligence can be integrated into the urban analytics toolbox and what opportunities and challenges it poses.

 

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