- Read the homepage introduction
- Understand the definition and impact of food deserts
- Learn the purpose of the GIS-based food desert identification project
- View the interactive density maps
- Locate fast food density hotspots
- Locate grocery store density zones
- Compare overlapping areas to identify possible food deserts
- Read each project persona
- Understand the needs and goals of each persona:
- Resident of a food desert
- Academic/Public Health Researcher
- Community Health Planner
- County Policy Maker
- View the storyboard
- Follow the narrative from fast food saturation to public policy action
- Play the demo walkthrough
- See how data was gathered, geocoded, and analyzed in QGIS
- Observe how food deserts were identified visually and analytically