{"599122":{"#nid":"599122","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leonard and Bullen Win 2017 Georgia Tech GIS Day Student Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Leonard, pursuing a Masters in Geographic Information Science \u0026amp; Technology, and Lucy Bullen, an undergrad with the School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, won this year\u0026rsquo;s Georgia Tech GIS Day Student Competition. Entries were hung in the Crow\u0026rsquo;s Nest and on November 15 winners were determined by popular vote. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach year, GIS Day produces a number of student entries, some more serious-minded than others. This year\u0026rsquo;s entries and winners were no exception. Matt tackled inequality and gerrymandered school districts in Gwinnett County, while Lucy mapped a \u003Cem\u003EBaby Driver\u003C\/em\u003E-inspired heist plan of Washington DC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I began to put together this map after watching the movie \u003Cem\u003EBaby Driver\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026rdquo; Lucy explained. \u0026ldquo;That day, when I browsed through potential GIS data sets, I found one with all the bank locations in Washington D.C. and the thought clicked. The idea for the map was set as a heist scenario.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Matt, there was a larger problem to understand. \u0026ldquo;Anecdotal evidence suggested that school districts in Gwinnett County, Georgia, seem to be \u0026ldquo;gerrymandered\u0026rdquo; to include or exclude certain areas based on housing type\/density and thus income and race, a pattern that may help perpetuate socioeconomic inequality,\u0026rdquo; Matt explained. That larger problem required a much more complicated methodology. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;d say the main difficulty in this project was that I had data on a variety of indicators at the census block group or tract level, and I wanted to map those same indicators by school zone, so I had to figure out how to transfer them to a different geographical unit.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the day, both students produced great work. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Leonard, pursuing a Masters in Geographic Information Science \u0026amp; Technology, and Lucy Bullen, an undergrad with the School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, won this year\u0026rsquo;s Georgia Tech GIS Day Student Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Matthew Leonard, pursuing a Masters in Geographic Information Science \u0026 Technology, and Lucy Bullen, an undergrad with the School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering, won this year\u2019s Georgia Tech GIS Day Student Competition."}],"uid":"34447","created_gmt":"2017-11-26 19:15:26","changed_gmt":"2017-11-26 19:17:14","author":"bdiacetis3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599120":{"id":"599120","type":"image","title":"LeonardGISWin2017","body":null,"created":"1511721511","gmt_created":"2017-11-26 18:38:31","changed":"1511721511","gmt_changed":"2017-11-26 18:38:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228407","name":"School Attendance Zones \u0026 Socioeconomic Disparity.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/School%20Attendance%20Zones%20%26%20Socioeconomic%20Disparity.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/School%20Attendance%20Zones%20%26%20Socioeconomic%20Disparity.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":773160,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/School%20Attendance%20Zones%20%26%20Socioeconomic%20Disparity.jpg?itok=zRHcIxwy"}},"599121":{"id":"599121","type":"image","title":"BullenGISWin","body":null,"created":"1511721573","gmt_created":"2017-11-26 18:39:33","changed":"1511721573","gmt_changed":"2017-11-26 18:39:33","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228408","name":"Bullen Lucy ArcGIS Entry.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bullen%20Lucy%20ArcGIS%20Entry.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bullen%20Lucy%20ArcGIS%20Entry.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":445077,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Bullen%20Lucy%20ArcGIS%20Entry.jpg?itok=0XtOimon"}}},"media_ids":["599120","599121"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}