Will B. Payne
¤ I am Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
¤ I use qualitative and quantitative methods to study the relationship between geospatial technologies and urban inequality.
¤ I teach students how to acquire, clean, analyze, and visualize spatial data to address vital issues like housing justice and the climate crisis.
¤ I also make open-source tools for spatial data visualization and computational research.
¤ Email me at will dot b dot payne at rutgers dot edu. You can also find me on Google Scholar, GitHub, and the Bloustein School site.
Project Gallery
Map from "Gourmet Gentrification" project showing New York City Zagat Survey listings compared to health inspection data
Reclassifying land surface temperature in Newark heat for a vulnerability analysis problem set in "Topics in GIS"
Relational Reprojection Program (alpha version) for non-linear distance transformations (with Evangeline McGlynn)
Interactive webmap of campus food resources for Berkeley Food Institute along with visualization of campus food players
New media public art (with Timothy Wai & Yinuo Wang) for "Sensing Cityscapes" studio in San Leandro, CA (see BOOM)
