Karim Bahgat- Doctor of Philosophy
- Senior GIS Consultant at Geodata AS
Karim Bahgat
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Senior GIS Consultant at Geodata AS
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Introduction
Current research interests: geospatial digitization, map recognition/georeferencing, text geocoding/geoparsing, toponym resolution, spatial uncertainty, fuzzy boundaries.
Current institution
Geodata AS
Current position
- Senior GIS Consultant
Additional affiliations
August 2014 - March 2015
International Law and Policy Institute
Position
- Data Specialist
Description
- Work on household surveys from Zanzibar; impact assessment of the evolution of Zanzibar’s electric grid and infrastructure; report on global economic trends and trade patterns for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
July 2017 - March 2018
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Standardizing, renewing, and updating PRIO‘s online data portal; work on data for background report for Save the Children.
June 2015 - June 2017
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Participate on misc. reports and data products; pilot-indicator for the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.1; Urban Social Disturbance v2.0; PRIO-GRID v2.0; general support and help function for colleagues on data and mapping related issues.
Education
August 2018 - May 2023
August 2011 - May 2013
August 2009 - May 2011
Publications
Publications (6)
The world’s population is increasingly concentrated in cities. Research on urbanization’s implications for peace and security has been hampered by a lack of comparable data on political mobilization and violence at the city level across space and through time, however. Urban Social Disorder 3.0 is a detailed event dataset covering 186 national capi...
A great deal of information is contained within archival maps—ranging from historic political boundaries, to mineral resources, to the locations of cultural landmarks. There are many ongoing efforts to preserve and digitize historic maps so that the information contained within them can be stored and analyzed efficiently. A major barrier to such ma...
Investigation of whether, how, and why inequality influences the dynamics of violent conflict has a long intellectual history. Inequality between individuals and households (vertical inequality) has dominated the literature, but recently attention has shifted to the role of group-based inequalities in triggering violence. Our review of research on...
A persistent finding in studies of research productivity is the ‘gender gap’ where men seem to publish more academic research than women. However, this gap varies widely from study to study, and little has been done to explore how these claims might be sensitive to what is being measured and how. Using a dataset of publications statistics spanning...
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Utilize Python with open source libraries to build a lightweight, portable, and customizable GIS desktop application.
This book provides you with the resources to successfully develop your own GIS application in Python. The book begins by walking you through the loading and saving of data structures before you sta...
Geographical perspectives and approaches are implemented in some areas of conflict research, but can benefit many more. While the body of geographically-oriented terrorism literature has been growing since the 2001, a geo-spatial focus has traditionally been absent from most research on terrorism research and remains largely unfamiliar to many terr...
