Atsushi Nara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atsushi Nara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atsushi |
| FAMILY NAME | Nara |
| SIGNATURE | NARA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4173-7773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing the Effects of Geocomputation Lessons on Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Geography and Computer Science
Preparing for a Career at the Intersection of Geography and Computing
The growth of the geospatial services industry is increasing the demand for a workforce with training at the intersection of geography and computing (i.e., geocomputation) in terms of skills, knowledge, and disciplinary background. To be more effective at increasing the supply of geocomputational professionals, we need to better understand the existing educational pathways that are available to acquire knowledge and skills in geography, computing…
Designing and Evaluating a Hierarchical Framework for Matching Food Outlets across Multi-sourced Geospatial Datasets
Building Educational Capacity for Inclusive Geocomputation
To build educational capacity for the rapidly evolving science and profession of geocomputation, the American Association of Geographers piloted an Encoding Geography research-practice partnership (RPP) composed of geography and computer science educators and researchers. This commentary describes the process, known as Collective Impact, that was implemented to investigate the persistent problems of practice that have limited the participation of…
Narrative review of social media as a research tool for diet and weight loss
Twitter Communication During an Outbreak of Hepatitis A in San Diego, 2016–2018
Objectives. To examine how and what information is communicated via social media during an infectious disease outbreak. Methods. In the context of the 2016 through 2018 hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego County, California, we used a grounded theory–based thematic analysis that employed qualitative and quantitative approaches to uncover themes in a sample of public tweets (n = 744) from Twitter, a primary platform used by key stakeholders to commu…
Please Enter Your Home Location
Location masking, or geomasking, is a practice typically undertaken by data stewards who wish to release a georeferenced data set without infringing on the privacy of those whose data are involved. With numerous opportunities to transmit our personal locations through electronic devices, individuals have the agency through masking to stem the flow of their location data or otherwise engage in obscuring their locations. Relatively little is known …
Exploring the imprint of social media networks on neighborhood community through the lens of gentrification
Gentrification, the rise of affluent socioeconomic populations in economically depressed urban neighborhoods, has been accused of disrupting community in these neighborhoods. Social media networks meanwhile have been recognized not only to create new communities in neighborhoods, but are also associated with gentrification. What relation then does gentrification and social media networks have to urban communities? To explore this question, this s…
An empirical test of household identification risk in geomasked maps
Geomasking techniques displace point data to new locations in order to protect privacy while maintaining overall spatial distributions. If the end users of geomasked data are unaware that the data are masked, there is a risk that they will incorrectly associate individuals at the new locations with the masked data attributes. The probability of correct and false household identification depends on human understanding of whether maps contain maske…
Data Model, Moving Objects
A data model for moving objects is a blueprint that describes data of interest related to movements of objects and a set of operations represented in an information or database management system. Designing an appropriate data model fosters conceptual understanding of the dynamic phenomena of moving objects, yields efficient data storage and retrieval, and further facilitates spatiotemporal analytical processes. Various data models have been propo…
Please Enter Your Home Location
Location masking, or geomasking, is a practice typically undertaken by data stewards who wish to release a georeferenced data set without infringing on the privacy of those whose data are involved. With numerous opportunities to transmit our personal locations through electronic devices, individuals have the agency through masking to stem the flow of their location data or otherwise engage in obscuring their locations. Relatively little is known …
Data Model, Moving Objects
A data model for moving objects is a blueprint that describes data of interest related to movements of objects and a set of operations represented in an information or database management system. Designing an appropriate data model fosters conceptual understanding of the dynamic phenomena of moving objects, yields efficient data storage and retrieval, and further facilitates spatiotemporal analytical processes. Various data models have been propo…
Exploring the imprint of social media networks on neighborhood community through the lens of gentrification
Gentrification, the rise of affluent socioeconomic populations in economically depressed urban neighborhoods, has been accused of disrupting community in these neighborhoods. Social media networks meanwhile have been recognized not only to create new communities in neighborhoods, but are also associated with gentrification. What relation then does gentrification and social media networks have to urban communities? To explore this question, this s…
An empirical test of household identification risk in geomasked maps
Geomasking techniques displace point data to new locations in order to protect privacy while maintaining overall spatial distributions. If the end users of geomasked data are unaware that the data are masked, there is a risk that they will incorrectly associate individuals at the new locations with the masked data attributes. The probability of correct and false household identification depends on human understanding of whether maps contain maske…
Narrative review of social media as a research tool for diet and weight loss
Twitter Communication During an Outbreak of Hepatitis A in San Diego, 2016–2018
Objectives. To examine how and what information is communicated via social media during an infectious disease outbreak. Methods. In the context of the 2016 through 2018 hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego County, California, we used a grounded theory–based thematic analysis that employed qualitative and quantitative approaches to uncover themes in a sample of public tweets (n = 744) from Twitter, a primary platform used by key stakeholders to commu…
Please Enter Your Home Location
Location masking, or geomasking, is a practice typically undertaken by data stewards who wish to release a georeferenced data set without infringing on the privacy of those whose data are involved. With numerous opportunities to transmit our personal locations through electronic devices, individuals have the agency through masking to stem the flow of their location data or otherwise engage in obscuring their locations. Relatively little is known …
Building Educational Capacity for Inclusive Geocomputation
To build educational capacity for the rapidly evolving science and profession of geocomputation, the American Association of Geographers piloted an Encoding Geography research-practice partnership (RPP) composed of geography and computer science educators and researchers. This commentary describes the process, known as Collective Impact, that was implemented to investigate the persistent problems of practice that have limited the participation of…
Designing and Evaluating a Hierarchical Framework for Matching Food Outlets across Multi-sourced Geospatial Datasets
Preparing for a Career at the Intersection of Geography and Computing
The growth of the geospatial services industry is increasing the demand for a workforce with training at the intersection of geography and computing (i.e., geocomputation) in terms of skills, knowledge, and disciplinary background. To be more effective at increasing the supply of geocomputational professionals, we need to better understand the existing educational pathways that are available to acquire knowledge and skills in geography, computing…
Assessing the Effects of Geocomputation Lessons on Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Geography and Computer Science
Computer Science (8 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cartography (3 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Data mining (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Social media (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)