OK, turns out Tim Walz is a former geography teacher and a GIS and data visualization nerd
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Attached: 1 image TIL Walz keynoted the Esri User Conference last month in San Diego. Looking forward to a GIS Nerd admistration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8BrT0-6gMMastodon
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> Walz also says maps help implement the nitty-gritty details of otherwise abstract policy. “You have to have a plan” for “how we’re doing power and economic justice and environmental justice,” he said. “The tools for that plan are GIS.” Those tools “transfer a vision of a fair society into one that actually has results.”
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Former geography teacher Tim Walz is really into maps • Minnesota Reformer
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