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Let’s get geographical: Wednesday is GIS Day at Penn

Explore the “Intersection of Geography, Real Estate, and Civil Rights” at a free panel tomorrow morning.

The Police Department's old GIS system, November 2012. (Courtesy image)

Real estate platform Zillow and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will speak Wednesday in Philadelphia about innovative uses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for housing and real estate.
Speakers include Alan Lightfeldt, senior data analyst at Zillow and StreetEasy; Robert Renner, social science analyst at HUD; and Al Parker, research associate at the Reinvestment Fund.


The panel, which is part of Penn’s celebration of National GIS Day (organized by mapping firm Esri, which makes GIS software), starts at 10 a.m. at the University of Pennsylvania in the lower gallery of Meyerson Hall.
The free event is hosted by the Penn Institute for Urban Research, and co-sponsored by the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics program, the Cartographic Modeling Lab, the Wharton GIS Lab, PennDesign and Penn Engineering.
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