In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Jim Courson from the International Mission Board. Mr. Courson speaks about his work at IMB and discovering, mapping and sharing data on people groups around the world.
00:50 Mission of IMB
2:40 Why Ethnolinguistic Groups Research
3:50 How do you gather data on people groups? Ethnologue: Languages of the World
5:50 How do you map data on people groups?
7:00 Discover people groups data here - People Groups Official Web Site
9:30 What makes the “Dog’s Head” region in Northwest Brazil special?
13:18 The challenge of mapping 8,500 unique people groups found across the world.
15:09 Humanitarian relief to Ukraine.
16:05 Modeling to describe the people groups.
18:15 Use of external datasets People of India | Anthropological Survey of India (ansi.gov.in)
WorldPop :: Mapping Populations
20:30 Download IMB data here: imb Open Data (arcgis.com)
