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Sprawl City Bank Run: Dallas Twitter Users on DFW’S Gas Shortage After Hurricane Harvey

Post author By Addison Larson
Post date September 18, 2017
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Photo (CC): Astronaut Randy Bresnik took this photo of Tropical Storm Harvey from the International Space Station on Aug. 28 at 1:27 p.m. CDT. All other photos courtesy of the author. Rumors about Texas gas shortages in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey prompted irrational but intense desperation among Dallasites to immediately fill up their cars. As a […]

Tags Dallas, Disaster Response, economics, GIS mapping, Guest Author, Texas

Making Maps for Data Driven Decisions

Post author By Amelia Pittman
Post date July 28, 2014
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During my internship with the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) in the Global Health Bureau at USAID, I attended a training that the GeoCenter conducted. They are a team of geospatial analysts who work to integrate a geographic approach into USAID’s development programs. Participants learned how to make and use maps to answer […]

Tags aid tracking, Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact, GIS mapping, Global Health Bureau, Innovations for Peace and Development, international aid, International Development, Misc, Summer Internships, The LBJ School of Public Affairs, USAID