While mainstream media may overlook Ron Paul and claim his base is eccentric people on the fringe of society, here are five reasons not to overlook him.
1. The “Paulites” are dominating the web
– Paul’s website had the most number of unique visitors of all Republican websites in August, according [...]
Continue Reading →In an effort to make more resources and data available to the community in regards to the San Diego fires we’ve uploaded a decent chunk of data to GeoCommons. We are tagging all the data with “San Diego fire” and will be updating GeoCommons as more data becomes available. We’ll also be putting together a [...]
Continue Reading →The folks at Puhpin had a great comment they posted to our last blog entry on “free public data“. I thought there was enough interesting content to expand on the comment thread with another blog post. The Pushpin team did a great job providing far more nuanced thoughts on the issues of “for fee” [...]
Continue Reading →The leading Democrats have over twice as much money in the bank as their Republican counterparts. According to the Federal Election Commission reports released early this week, Clinton and Obama have a combined $65.9 million to spend, while the Republican trio of Giuliani, Thompson and Romney have $27.9.
What are the causes of this [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been playing around lately with some new data visualization techniques, so I started poking around to see what approaches have been generating buzz of late. In the process I came across Stamen Design’s very cool “Oakland CrimeSpotting” via Brady’s post on O’Reilly Radar. We’d been really impressed with what they did [...]
Continue Reading →The lottery is an old hot topic of controversy with a new surge of debate. With the addition of North Carolina’s lottery and the impending implementation of video lotteries, supporters and critics are, once again, suiting up for battle over our nations lotteries and laws.
But outside of the active contributors to this [...]
NPR ran a story on Monday’s Morning Edition entitled “Security Officials Seek to Block Some Online Maps”. The story centered around local government officials refusing to release electronic maps of what they call “critical infrastructure,” such as water mains and fire hydrants. Specifically the story of Steven Whitaker’s futile quest to obtain infrastructure data [...]
Continue Reading →In conjunction with this morning’s social media news release announcing we have reached 2500 sets of data on GeoCommons, we also created a short podcast to expand on some details. Sean discusses the exponential power of each new data set added to GeoCommons. He also provides some insights into what may be next for [...]
Continue Reading →Dealing with Data Accuracy in the GeoWeb: The Day China Annexed Taiwan
One of big gremlins in Geography that often gets over looked is data accuracy. On the surface data accuracy and validation is a pretty dull topic, but when data is wrong or controversial the repercussions can be huge. Google Earth has been a [...]
Continue Reading →On October 2nd, one of the most emailed New York Times articles in the United States was an op-ed highlighting several coinciding, racially-charged events. These included the slandering of a black female executive for the Knicks, the beating of a popular female Evangelical minister by her husband, the most recent arrest of O.J. Simpson, [...]
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