The 2019 Fall Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing. The newsletter is packed with department news, alumni updates, and articles by faculty and students. 

• Message from the Department Chair, pg 2
• Editors' Comments, pg 3
• Mark Serreze Named Distinguished Professor, pgs 4-5
• The Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative, pgs 6-7
• Introducing Morteza Karimzadeh, Assistant Professor, pgs 8-9
• Introducing Heide Bruckner, Instructor, pgs 9-10
• Emily Yeh Sabbatical Notes: Post-disaster trajectories in mountainous Chinese village, pgs 11-12
• Alumni Updates, pg 13
• Department News, pg 14
• Donor Support, pgs 15-16

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Carla Ho-a, associate vice chancellor for finance and business strategy and deputy chief financial officer, named Seth Spielman as chief data strategy and analytics officer, effective Aug. 12, 2019.

"I'm excited to welcome Seth, and look forward to the unique perspective and energy he will bring to the Office of Data Analytics and the Finance and Business Strategy (FBS) division," Ho-a said.

Spielman joined 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 community in 2010 as an associate professor in the , and also holds affiliations with 蜜桃传媒破解版下载  (IBS) and Information Science.

From 2015 through 2019, Spielman worked at Apple Maps, where his work included building systems that used machine learning to improve map-based navigation and search, and coordinating international data collection projects. Throughout his career, Spielman鈥檚 work has focused on the intersection of data science and maps. He鈥檚 published over thirty articles, co-authored a book on urban analytics, led over $1.5 million in National Science Foundation awards, and received awards from American Association of Geographers, the American Statistical Association and the Breheny Prize for work in urban science.

鈥淥ur institutional data is an incredible asset. I think there is tremendous potential to improve student outcomes, and our institution as a whole, through partnerships that enable domain experts to gain insights through data,鈥� says Spielman. 鈥淚 look forward to leading this team as we partner with faculty and staff across campus.鈥�

Spielman received his PhD in geographic information science from SUNY Buffalo, his MS in urban planning from Columbia University and his BA in geography from Macalester College.

"Seth鈥檚 experience using data to inform change, and his views and experience as a faculty member provide an opportunity to expand ODA鈥檚 impact,鈥� said Ho-a. 鈥淭his experience can take the FBS division one step closer to our vision of supporting faculty, and ultimately the university, in deep and meaningful ways."

Evolving to support the university community: Faculty Information System joins ODA

The Office of Data Analytics has served the 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 community through survey design, reporting, predictive analytics and the building of applications that support the collection, analysis and reporting of institutional data. In an effort to expand overall support for 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 faculty, the Faculty Information System (FIS) transitioned from the Office of Faculty Affairs to ODA in May 2019.

鈥淭he FIS technical group is a talented team with over twenty combined years of experience serving 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 faculty,鈥� said Michele Moses, vice provost for Faculty Affairs. 鈥淚 look forward to growing the partnership between Faculty Affairs and Data Analytics, with the common goal to build services that save faculty valuable resources, including time, so they can focus on research, teaching and other professional activities.鈥�

FIS was created in 1994 and serves as the university's system of record to track faculty information including key career events, professional activities, research interests and other business-critical data. The FIS technical group will continue to partner with the Faculty Data and Impact group within the Office of Faculty Affairs to fully support FIS' stakeholders, including faculty, department chairs and other academic administrators.

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The 2018 Fall Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing. The newsletter is packed with department news, alumni updates, and student and faculty articles. 

• Bill Travis: Message from the Chair, pgs 2-3
• von Dreden Stacey Fellowship Winners, pgs 4-6
• Mark Serreze: Climate Change Becomes Persona (Non Grata), pgs 6-8
• Introducing Caitlin McShane, New Graduate Student, pgs 8-9
• Introducing Katherine Lininger, New Faculty Member, pg 10
• Seth Spielman鈥檚 鈥淒ouble Life鈥�, pg 11
• Mara Goldman: Examining Nature-Society Relations Across Boundaries, pgs 12-13
• A Career in Geography, Dr. Lionel D. Lyles, PhD, 1977, pgs 14-15
• Alumni Updates, pg 16
• Department News, pg 17
• Donor Support, pgs 18-19

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At the recently concluded Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Seth Spielman and David Folch were recipients of the 2017 SPAIG Award (SPAIG is the Statistical Partnership Among Academe, Industry, and Government Committee). This is a nice honor for an important project. Myron P. Gutmann, Director, Institute of Behavioral Science was also recognized for an underlying project between the Census Bureau and NSF.

The National Science Foundation-Census Research Network (NCRN), established in 2011, has been a highly successful collaboration between multiple universities and the U.S. Census Bureau. It aimed to provide support for conducting interdisciplinary research and educational activities on methodological questions of significance to the broader research community and to the federal statistical system.

This collaboration has won the SPAIG Award due to its broad impacts based on many NCRN research activities over the past six years. The SPAIG Committee was impressed by the diverse achievements including, the novel method that significantly improves the accuracy of the tabulations from the Economic Census, the production of synthetic business micro-datasets, and the effective training of the next generation of statisticians. As evidenced by strong letters of support, the NCRN was an innovative collaboration that has had comprehensive benefits for students, researchers, and the broader statistical community.  The committee would like to congratulate the key contributors on their outstanding collaboration.

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Professor Seth Spielman's paper was named a top 5 most read paper in the International Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGIS) in 2016.

Message to Seth from IJGIS: "Congratulations! Your IJGIS paper is one of the top 5 most read papers in IJGIS Volume 30 published in 2016. We, the IJGIS editorial team, invite you to present your papers in the IJGIS highlights session at AAG Annual Meeting April 5-9, 2017 in Boston, USA. The session aims to recognize the success of your papers. Since your papers are of high interest to the community, this session offers an opportunity to interact with your readers and attract even broader discussions on the topics."

Singleton, A. D., Spielman, S., & Brunsdon, C. (2016). Establishing a framework for Open Geographic Information science. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 30(8), 1507-1521.

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Seth Spielman was awarded the 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, CA. Congratulations Seth!

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Seth Spielman's research conducted through a National Science Foundation grant profiled in The Atlantic. 

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Seth received the Michael Breheny Prize for the Best Paper in Environment and Planning. The paper, with Enki Yoo and Crystal Linkletter is called "Neighborhood contexts, health, and behavior: understanding the role of scale and residential sorting.鈥� The Breheny Prize is awarded annually by the editors for the most innovative paper in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.

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A person searching through the massive expanse of data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in search of details about a specific neighborhood may increasingly find statistics with colossal margins of error, such as an average income of $50,000 plus or minus $50,000. Professor Seth Spielman, involved in the National Sciense Foundation's newly created Census Research Network, has been granted a five-year $1.4 million grant to see if he can change that.

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Seth Spielman featured in Science magazine.

"Twenty years ago, a driver lost at night would pull his car over, take out a paper map bought at a gas station, and pore over its folds under a dim light. With luck and some critical thinking, he would eventually get where he was going. Today, he'd be more likely to swipe his finger across a smart phone screen and follow directions using Google Maps." 

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