Geospatial Tools

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  • NCI Cancer Atlas

    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.

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  • Cancer Map Stories

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

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  • Animated Historical Cancer Atlas

    A tool that allows the users to animate smoothed age-adjusted death rates over time and view them at the national or state level.

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  • Tobacco Policy Viewer

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

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  • NCI Catchment Areas

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

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Geocoding and Data Preparation Tools

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Spatial Statistics Tools

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  • Spatial Power

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

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  • SaTScan

    Identifies statistically significant disease clusters using spatial scan statistics

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  • Health Disparities Calculator (HD*Calc)

    Statistical software designed to evaluate and monitor health disparities

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  • Confidence Intervals for Ranked Rates (CI*Rank)

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

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  • NAACCR's Shortest Path Finder ToolExternal Web Site Policy

    Interactive tool to calculate the time and distance between pairs of points

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  • GeoDa Spatial Statistics PackageExternal Web Site Policy

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

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  • CrimeStat Spatial Statistics Program

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

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Mapping and Cartography Tools

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  • ColorBrewerExternal Web Site Policy

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

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  • MapShaper Generalization ToolExternal Web Site Policy

    An interactive tool to generalize or simplify spatial boundary files

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  • LeafletExternal Web Site Policy

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

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  • D3-GeoExternal Web Site Policy

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

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Geovisualization / Data Visualization Tools

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  • Penn State GeoVISTA SoftwareExternal Web Site Policy

    Geovisualization software tools from Penn State University's Department of Geography

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  • Visualizing HealthExternal Web Site Policy

    An interactive style guide with suggested techniques for visualizing health data

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  • The Data Visualization CatalogueExternal Web Site Policy

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

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  • Visualizing Data Tools and ResourcesExternal Web Site Policy

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

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Color Blind Tools

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