Christopher J. Seeger
Christopher J. Seeger, (cjseeger@iastate.edu) PLA, GISP is a Morrill Professor and Extension Specialist in Landscape Architecture and Geospatial Technology at Iowa State University. He leads the ISU Extension and Outreach Indicators Program and is the director of the Data Science for the Public Good Young Scholars Program. Professor Seeger specializes in the integration of geospatial technologies, collaborative design technologies, crowd-sourcing (Public Participation GIS and Volunteered Geographic Information) and data visualization to develop local current datasets and indicators that can be used in the community planning and design process.
Sessions
We apply the Community Capitals Framework in small rural Midwest communities using FOSS and open data. Our case studies demonstrate how regional access to services varies across rural places—and how, within those places, spatial analysis reveals localized gaps in access to essential assets like healthcare, broadband, and public infrastructure.
This presentation will share how community members are being trained to leverage the use of measurable local data in decision making using Free and Open-Source software such as QGIS, GeoJSON.io, Google Sheets, GitHub, and Tableau Public.