GIScience Summer Research

A reproduction and reanalysis of Spielman et al.’s critique of the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI).
GIScience
Python
Author

Liam Smith

Published

August 3, 2023

Over the summer of 2023, I contributed to an open-science research effort seeking to address the reproducibility crisis in the field of geography by reproducing a published paper on social vulnerability to natural hazards. This involved reviewing all resources provided by the original authors, coding their analysis in Python, and critiquing the statistical methodology of the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI).

My research advisor and I wrote the following report and delivered this presentation at the American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting in April 2024. Further documentation is available in our GitHub repository.

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