• Geography Joe
  • July 24 2026
  • Analysis, Public Health, Cities
Functional Health Opportunity in Atlanta

Over the past several months, I have been developing an idea that I call Functional Health Opportunity. Early in the project I reviewed the literature to understand what had already been done, but after that I…

  • Geography Joe
  • July 24 2026
  • War in Ukraine, Analysis
Recent Changes in Nighttime Lights Across Crimea

Recent disruptions of the gas and oil distribution by Ukraine have severely impacted life in Crimea. Over the past few days, I've been revisiting one of my earlier Ukraine GIS projects using a new workflow based on NASA…

  • Geography Joe
  • July 24 2026
  • Analysis, Public Health, Cities
Atlanta Neighborhood Hot Spot Analysis

These two maps are pretty cool and almost what I expected to see. They show not random noise, but spatial clustering. Comparing the Social Friction and Functional Health Opportunity hot spot maps reveals a strong inverse…

  • Geography Joe
  • April 10 2026
  • Cartography, Analysis
Mapping Overlapping Vulnerability in Ukraine

After completing the civilian vulnerability poster I decided to attempt combining the five factors into a single composite index of vulnerability. This map presents civilian vulnerability in Ukraine using a…

  • Geography Joe
  • February 19 2026
  • Cartography, Analysis, Health, Cities
Network-Based Primary Care Accessibility in Metro Atlanta

I recently completed a network-based spatial accessibility analysis of primary care providers across the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) region using an Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) model.Instead…

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