Week 9
Geography, Redlining, and Spatial Justice
October 28-30
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Programming Concepts and Learning Outcomes:
Spatial Data
Choropleth maps
Joining Geographic and Statistical Data
Color scales for maps
Tuesday Class Section
Tuesday Class Section
Geography, Redlining, and Spatial Justice
Topics:
Geographic Information Systems
Spatial Bias
Due Today:
🔢Poverty Threshold Presentation
Link to folder: "Behind The Number Presentation"
Dear Data (6)
📚Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression (NYU Press, 2018), Chapter 3
📚Criminal Sentencing Study by ProPublica
📚Criminal Sentencing Reporting by MIT Readings Due
Thursday Class Section
Thursday Class Section
Link: Geography, Redlining, and Spatial Justice
Topics:
Algorithmic Redlining
Targeted Advertising
Due Today:
🔢Air Quality Index Presentation
Link to folder: "Behind The Number Presentation"
🔔Next Week:
GDP Presentation
"Lie with Maps + Spatial Data" Readings Due
Deat Data (7)
GINI Coefficient Presentation
Problem Set #4 Due
TUESDAY, NOV 4
THURSDAY, NOV 6
📚To read before next Tuesday:
Monmonier, M. (1996). How to lie with maps (2nd ed., Chapter 3). University of Chicago Press.
Link: "Lie with Maps"
Link: "Quick Reading Guide"
Light, Jennifer. "Discriminating Appraisals: Cartography, Computation, and Access to Federal Mortgage Insurance in the 1930s." Technology and Culture, vol. 52 no. 3, 2011, p. 485-522. Project MUSE
Link: "Spacial Data"
Link: "Quick Reading Guide"
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