August 5, 2009

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April 21, 2008

A new version of the GeoViz Toolkit, developed by Frank Hardisty, is now available for download. The GeoViz Toolkit was developed for the visualization of multidimensional, geographic data. The Toolkit adapts a sample of GeoVISTA Studio components into a more "user-friendly" environment and coordinates them to support analysis of multivariate relationships in geographic space.

The latest version, GeoViz Toolkit Version 0.82, contains numerous improvements and bug fixes. Noteworthy in this release is the re-introduction of space-filling visualization, and the capacity for adding annotations to visualization sessions.

July 11, 2007

GeoVISTA Research Associate Frank Hardisty led a day-long workshop highlighting the GeoViz Toolkit, software that he developed based on GeoVISTA Studio. The workshop was held in Harrisburg, PA, on July 11th, and was organized jointly by Hardisty and Dr. Gene Lengerich of the Department Public Health Sciences at Penn State's College of Medicine. Representatives from at least 5 state Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) programs, including New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky, as well as representatives from the CDC, attended. The workshop introduced attendees to the use GeoViz Toolkit for epidemiological studies, as well as requested their professional evaluation of the software. The workshop is part of GeoVISTA's on-going CDC ESDA project, which conducts research to systematically evaluate and compare the strengths and weaknesses of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial statistical methods for prostate cancer for use by state-based CCC programs.

For more information, contact Frank Hardisty at hardisty (at) psu.edu

July 9, 2007

Stand alone jar and MS Windows versions of GeoViz Toolkit available for download. Check the Download page for directions.