ONR Social Media Conference

On January 17, 2012 By Sean Gorman

Right before Christmas I headed out to San Jose for a conference on social media hosted by the Office of Naval Research.  It was an interesting cross section of government research on social media and comercial social media companies that provided either  social media apps (Facebook, Google+, Yahoo) or analytics (Topsy, Radian6, SAS).  There [...]

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There is a good chance that you’ve been using Google Docs. Its a great way to share spreadsheets, documents, and information throughout your organization, or with friends and family. Ever wanted to plot you data on map, create thematics or animate it over time? This tutorial will focus on how to build Maps in GeoCommons [...]

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Maps are awesome. Adding charts to a map is even more awesome. In addition to mapping data at Geocommons, users can now visualize the same data by utilizing our newly introduced charts.  The backbone of these charts was created using g.Raphael, which is based on Raphael‘s JavaScript graphics library. RaphaelJS offers the unique [...]

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Last week I had the opportunity to go to Camp Roberts and do experiments with the Naval Postgraduate’s School RELIEF exercise at Camp Roberts, CA.  GeoIQ has partnered with the QuickNets program including Ushahidi to provide dynamic visualization and analytics for situational awareness during disaster response.   The 42,000 acres [...]

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As the number of data sets on GeoCommons continues to grow we are constantly looking for new ways to allow users to explore the data.  A variety of recent projects have pushed us develop new tools for interacting with emerging multidimensional data streams.  Today we are pushing out a new release that gives you three [...]

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Streaming Data and GeoIQ

On November 2, 2011 By Chris Helm

Last week we announced GeoIQ Social where anyone can immediately visualize and analyze social media data with their internal and external data. But there is more than just connecting social data, it’s is necessary to make this data available on-demand in realtime.

We’ve been focusing on connectivity across [...]

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GeoIQ Launches Social

On October 26, 2011 By Frank Moyer

Since the beginning of the year, the GeoIQ Engineers have been working with our commercial and government customers to help them leverage the combination of location data and social networks to make faster and better decisions. Today, we are excited to package that capability into a new product, GeoIQ Social, that will [...]

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Over the recent several years governments have begun publishing more of their quality local data online. The reasons vary but typically range from inventive and progressive thinking administrations to decreed government mandate.

Publishing data online is not as straight-forward as it may first appear. It is easy for an organization to simply create a webpage [...]

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