We at FortiusOne have been busy monitoring the current swine flu outbreak by gathering public data to create datasets in Finder! and maps in Maker!, and we’ve even made a Swine Flu Dashboard. The outbreak is gathering a lot of attention and is now a common topic of discussion.
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Continue Reading →There has been non-stop talk about Obamas first 100 days in office, and its impact on his presidency. As the election was coming to an end economic policy was at the forefront of discussion. So, when Barack Obama took office we launched ‘The Obamameter’, which was our economic dashboard to follow the impact that [...]
Continue Reading →Health officials from across the world are currently monitoring swine flu outbreaks that are causing quite the international health scare. Mexico, which appears to be the source of the outbreak, has been hit hard with over 80 deaths and several hundreds hospitalized. Now countries around the world are preparing to fight off any possible [...]
Continue Reading →The 2008-2009 NHL Season has been a thrilling one and it continues to be with the start of the playoffs. The game’s popularity has been growing and a rise in attendance figures has been a direct result. The Total NHL Attendance figure was broken this year for the fourth consecutive year. This news made [...]
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CNN money just came out with its 2009 List for the Fortune 1000, the 1000 largest American companies. This list gives us an interesting look at the health of big business throughout the United States. Companies make the Fortune based on their revenues, not their profits. General [...]
Giving birth in the USA has become increasingly controversial, especially for women hoping to have a natural and intervention-free birth. Hospitals are becoming increasingly dependent on medicalized birth and as a response, many women are turning to alternatives including delivering at free-standing birth centers and home births. Meanwhile, home births continue to be threatened [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been swamped with work on our enterprise product, but finally found a bit of time to push some new updates to the GeoCommons public site. So, we’ve added the following new hotness to Finder! and Maker! for your mapping enjoyment:
1. New color ramps – (the cartographers designed the top row [...]
Continue Reading →I regularly visit the British operated web news source, Guardian, to check if they have published any new links to data which could be generated through Finder! to create interesting maps in Maker!. Two of my recent blogs, Global Contaceptive Use and Champagne Anyone?, were both mapped using data linked from Guardian’s Data Blog and Continue Reading →
Earlier this week James Fee had a provocative post on licensing models for the GeoWeb and his frustration with how users have to buy ESRI, Oracle, MSFT, Google etc. Lots of valid complaints in the posts and the follow up comments, and it got me thinking about what the options are out there for [...]
Continue Reading →Included in the recent stimulus package is $3.2 billion for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG). Administered through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), grant money will be allocated to state and local governments to reduce energy use and fossil fuel emissions. Below [...]
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New GeoCommons Maps- Mapping Democratic Participation: Money & Recalls geographer
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- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
- New GeoCommons Datasets
- REGMGR.VOTING_PREC_092011 REQUIRED: The person responsible for the metadata information.
- Snowfall reports for Denver's February snowstorm, Feb. 2-4, 2012
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- Merge of 'Large/Medium U.S. Military Bases, 2009' into 'MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS_RANGES_TRAINING_AREAS_PT'
- Merge of 'Large/Medium U.S. Military Bases, 2009' into 'MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS_RANGES_TRAINING_AREAS_PT'
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