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Using Local Knowledge to Better Map Food Deserts

Mapping and understanding food deserts is important if we are to understand how best to tackle the lack of healthy food options in the United States. However, this is more than simply putting dots on a map of where food stores and consumers are. Integrating spatial data with subject-derived knowledge might be the key.

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