The Avocado Industry in Mexico
My article on the avocado industry in Mexico (created as part of the Introduction to GIS course taught by Prof. Brottem) came from the tidbits I would hear from my time growing up in Mexico, as well as my interest in food systems and globalization. I had a great time creating this article and the maps related to it. No raw data was created for this project.
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Plastic Recycling Rates in the US
This article was created as a final project for the Applied GIS course taught by Prof. Brottem with the purpose of showcasing more advanced methods of spatial analysis such as hotspot analysis. No raw data was created for this project.
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Group Project – Do you feel welcome in Grinnell?
*Only available to those within the Grinnell College community*
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5d04cf84f21144b8bd02d20101f1aef2
A group project surveying students and how ‘welcome’ they feel in different college buildings (as part of Applied GIS taught by Prof. Brottem), as well as analyzing possible correlation with factors such as athlete or international status. This was based on an idea of mine on student belonging (inspired by a class on student success), though my group member Filip carried out the most important statistical work for this. This project was briefly featured in the college newspaper. Raw data is not available since it deals with students’ personal information.
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The Pershing Chinese *work in progress*
Article on the Pershing Chinese based on Prof. Ng’s (professor of historical archaeology) side project on the Pershing Chinese. I was very fortunate to get access to her current data and have plans to expand on it. As of this moment it remains incomplete, but the idea is to manually consult and check the immigration documents of the more than 400 Pershing Chinese in Ancestry.com, enter them on a spreadsheet, and then map out their trajectories and analyze other elements. So far those of around 40 people have been manually checked and entered. A major difficulty is figuring out accurate historical geocoding and locating the specific home village of each person using the Roots Village Database. The plan is to have the raw data available once the article is completed.
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