People may not be as big as elephants, whales, or gigantic trees but they are still the most “space dominating” organisms on the face of the planet. What do I mean by “space dominating”? I hypothesize that humans tend to conquer over spaces so drastically that they greatly affect the quality of living for other [...]
Continue Reading →Over the course of Where 2.0 and WhereCamp TFL (Tobler’s First Law) came up several times and I though it might be a good time to revisit the concept. TFL is the idea that “Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things”. It is a simple and [...]
Continue Reading →Chrysler has recently announced that by June 9th, 2009 they will be closing 789 of their 3200 dealerships across the USA. Sales for many dealers have been very low and a little over 50 percent of all the dealers account for close to 90 percent of all the company’s U.S. sales. This shows a [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been collaborating with our co-founders back at George Mason for the last few months on a paper modeling oil dependency/vulnerability from a geographic perspective. We wrapped up the paper yesterday and it got me thinking about what a fully interactive version of the paper would look like. What if all the maps and charts [...]
Continue Reading →One of the major news stories of the last week was the much anticipated release by the U.S. Treasury of the Stress Test results. Officially known as the “Supervisory Capital Assessment Program,” SCAP for short is crammed with tables, charts and other financial arcana too far removed from the commonplace utterances of daily [...]
Continue Reading →The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), a body of 30 developed countries has the common characteristics of maintaining representative democracy and free market economies. The OECD collects a significant amount of data from the different involved countries with the aim of identifying good and bad social, economic, and political practices in order to solve problems [...]
Continue Reading →Couple of big announcements today both revolving around our enterprise work. The first is the launch of our new corporate website, and the second is a partnership with DataXstream. The website adds a lot more depth to what we’ve been working on behind the scenes in regards to our new enterprise product [...]
Continue Reading →As the media was going hog wild for the last couple of weeks over the Swine flu story, the principal actor behind this Swine flu, the A/H1N1 virus with bits of bird and human genetic material, was acting quite tame. This bug with a reputation to cause world wide death [...]
Continue Reading →President Obama has had some tough issues to tackle during his first 100 days in office, such as a struggling economy, a poor health care system, and a Nation taking its focus off of a war in Iraq. What’s more, he has been trying to reacquire a genuine sense of confidence in the citizens of [...]
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