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.
Interesting topics for #GISDay @PennIUR https://t.co/NWMGWj2WxE #housing #dataviz @KenSteif @PennDesign pic.twitter.com/dafCaHhBvY
— GIS Day (@gisday) November 17, 2015
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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