November 2012 Newsletter

Yesterday GCRI sent out its monthly email newsletter. The main updates are reprinted below, slightly modified for the blog. To sign up for our newsletter, click here.

GCRI Releases Blogs & Newsfeeds Resource

To help the global catastrophic risk community stay up to date, GCRI has released a new blogs & newsfeeds resource, compiling 36 blogs and 18 newsfeeds related to catastrophic risk. Further details are available here. We expect to be releasing more resources in support of the global catastrophic risk community soon.

Katherine Thompson To Present …

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Wei Luo Talks To GCRI About Geo-Social Visual Analytics And Pandemics

Wei Luo is a PhD candidate in Geography at Pennsylvania State University and researcher in Penn State’s GeoVISTA Center. He’s also a good friend of mine from my own time at Penn State Geography. Yesterday, Wei presented his research on geo-social visual analytics to GCRI, exploring how this research applies to global catastrophic risk.

Visual analytics can be defined as “the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces”. As an illustration of visual analytics, Wei recommends the video Precision Information Environments Envisioning the future …

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