Geospatial Tools

An interactive digital atlas that enables users to generate geographic maps of cancer rates, risk factors for cancer, screening statistics, and other geographically based data related to cancer.

A set of narratives that use map-based explanations to explore various cancer-related topics.

An interactive web resource for mapping, query, and download of historical smoke-free policy data in the United States.

An interactive map application to illustrate the service areas of NCI funded cancer treatment centers.

Geocoding services available at no cost to cancer registries

Free geocoding services with public-use street data

A suite of CDC tools for collecting and mapping epidemiological data

Suite of web-based applications designed to easily and efficiently perform power calculations for selected spatial statistics

Identifies statistically significant disease clusters using spatial scan statistics

Statistical software designed to evaluate and monitor health disparities

Interactive tool to generate confidence intervals for incidence or mortality rates ranked among different geographic areas

A suite of spatial statistical methods to identify general spatial patterns and relationships

Tools to analyze the distance between point locations – useful for research involving access to medical services

An interactive tool to select effective colors for choropleth (shaded area) maps

An interactive tool to generalize or simplify spatial boundary files

An easy-to-use JavaScript library to generate interactive web maps

A flexible JavaScript library to generate interactive web maps within the D3 data visualization framework

An interactive style guide with suggested techniques for visualizing health data

An interactive collection of different types of charts and graphs for quantitative data displays

A collection of visualization tools and resources with topic filter tabs at the top including a Mapping topic

An interactive simulator to see how a map will appear to a color-blind reader

An interactive or standalone simulator to see how a map will appear to a color-blind reader

A standalone simulator to see how a map will appear to a color-blind reader