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GIS is a type of software used to capture and analyze geographic data. Mona used GIS software to help prove a correlation between lead levels in Flint’s water supply and increases in blood-lead levels of Flint children.
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Geographic Information Systems Software (GIS) Term Timeline in What the Eyes Don’t See
The timeline below shows where the term Geographic Information Systems Software (GIS) appears in What the Eyes Don’t See. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 21: Numbers War
...that if she and Jenny could find a way to use geographic information systems software (GIS) to clearly define the neighborhoods in the city where the water was piped in, their...
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Chapter 22: Demonstration of Proof
Mona told Eden that she and Jenny were running their numbers again, using GIS software to make sure the data was even more precise. Eden assured Mona that the...
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Chapter 24: Fire Ant
...the blood-lead data she’d refined using geospatial software. If she published a new article using GIS data and received a “scholarly stamp of approval” from a peer-reviewed journal, her data would...
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