Insurance Risk Profiling in Alberta

The main objective of this study is to develop an “Atmospheric Risk Composite Score” and then a “Catastrophic Risk for Alberta – Atmospheric Hazard” score as per the FSA boundaries for the Alberta province, Canada. This is based on three atmospheric natural hazards viz. 50 Year Return Wind-speed, Average Number of Days with Hail, Number of Tornadoes per Year (per 10,000 sq. km.). This exercise is set to explore natural hazards data for Alberta and develop a summary of atmospheric risks similar to the type of risk scoring that is used by the insurance industry.

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Geodemographic Segmentation: Social vulnerability index

Social vulnerability is one of a series of indicators that are commonly used to assess risk or vulnerability in a geographic population. It is a useful tool for agencies such as Regional Health and Child and Family Services for use in long-term planning, policy development and resource allocation. The Social vulnerability Index is a very specific tool to measure need of a population through highlighting stress and disadvantage as evidenced in the 2001 census. Demographically, the Social vulnerability Index is based on nine census variables. The main purpose of this study is to work with the 2001 Statistics Canada census data at the Dissemination Area (DA) level, and develop a Social vulnerability Index map for the Calgary CMA.

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Practical application of GIS in Business planning and operations

The main purpose of this study is to explore the creation of trade area customer profiles and undertake trade area analysis in the city of Calgary, Canada. The data available for the analysis is a customer survey data for ABC sporting goods store which was created through interviewing customers as they left three stores during a one week period in the month of September. The three ABC sporting goods outlets in Calgary market are located in three different malls viz. Crowfoot centre as store A, Westhills as Store B and Bankers Hall as Store C. The customer locations were geocoded by matching postal codes. ABC sporting goods store are new to Calgary market and was first opened in the year 1993. ArcGIS software package is used for the analysis. This study focuses on the trade area analysis of the ABC sporting goods store.

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Developing a landuse real estate GIS model

The main purpose of this study is to develop a demo land use real estate model for Advanced Real Estate Solutions (ARES) Ground in Calgary. A typical request from a young family is provided for the neighborhood search criteria to use in the demo model. The potential client request includes a) existing residential areas b) within 1000 meters to an elementary school c) house price between $200,000 to $300,000 d) Average Income greater than $100,000 e) On average, thee or more bedrooms, and f) at least 500 meters from a major road. The data available for analysis are ‘Calgary communities’, ‘Calgary community land use 2001’, ‘Calgary major roads 2001’, ‘Calgary elementary schools 2001’ as shape files and ‘Calgary community average bedrooms’, ‘Calgary community average house price’ and ‘Calgary community average income’ as ‘.dbf’ files. ArcGIS is used for analysis. 

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