GIS News at Tufts!

Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through Link to New York Times Article For years, the federal government, states and some cities have enthusiastically made vast troves of data open to the public. Acres of paper records on demographics, public health, traffic patterns, energy consumption, family incomes […]

Check out the article about Tufts’ new Data Lab on the front page of the Arts & Sciences Website! by Blake Coolidge, A17 The newly expanded Data Lab on the Tisch Library’s second floor is lined with poster-sized infographics and maps created by Tufts students using geographic information systems (GIS) […]

Check out this Tufts Technology Services article written about the Tufts Annual GIS Poster Expo! Annual GIS Poster Expo Highlights Student Research  Randolph Pfaff Tuesday, June 23, 2015 – 12:00pm What do aircraft noise in Denali National Park, economic development in Colombia, public housing challenges in Chicago, and the California […]

Tufts Patrick Florance guest edited a special Crisis Mapping Edition of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 8 (2). The edition contains articles from Tufts Alums Patrick Meier, “Crisis Mapping in Action: How Open Source Software and Global Volunteer Networks Are Changing the World One map at a Time and Simcha […]

Tufts UIT would like to announce the launch of GeoData@Tufts: a collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to rapidly discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data.