| Major or field of study
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Examples of geographic distributions
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| Actuarial science, Administration of public health
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Administration of organizations |
- members
- donors
- demands for services
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Agriculture, Forestry |
- crop yields compared with other factors such as
- uses of fertilizers
- uses of pesticides
- weather factors such as rainfall, days of sun
- soil types
- soil erosion
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Biology
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Environmental studies
- pollution hotspots
- biological pests
Natural history
- habitat maps
- populations of (e.g., endangered) species
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Business, Economics, Hospitality, Marketing |
- location of customers
- patterns of wealth, education, consumption
- studies of market penetration or saturation
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Criminology, Criminal Justice |
- incidences of crimes
- patterns of poverty
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Education administration |
- patterns of illness among students
- wealth and poverty
- ethnic minorities
- parental levels of education
- students in geographic areas (e.g., for district planning)
- student
recruitment patterns (e.g., for universities or private schools)
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| History |
- illustrate the geography of important events
- show changes with respect to time of populations, resources, etc.
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Meteorology |
In addition to what you can see on tv news every day,
- distribution of rainfall or sunshine over a time period
- distribution of weather-related events such as travel conditions, forest
fires, star-gazing conditions
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Political science, government |
- voter registrations by political party
- occupational categories
- wealth and poverty
- opinion surveys by voting districts
- studies for planning, e.g., of land use, zoning
- disaster response needs assessments
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Social work - administration |
- poverty
- incidences of conditions
associated with large numbers of clients
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| Sociology
|
- all of the above
- all
of the below
- housing patterns
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| Transportation
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- routing
- locations of
clients with special needs (e.g., residences of physically impaired bus riders)
- accidents
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