What does socialized medicine really mean? Well it depends who you ask but in general it refers to “medical care that is publicly financed, government administered, or both”. In other words, it’s much like our education, fire department and police department only for health care.
Socialized medicine, which in the case of US politics [...]
Continue Reading →At the GeoCommons Office some of us are into Foursquare. Foursquare is a location based game with social networking aspects. Essentially when you go somewhere you “check-in” and you can get points for that. Whoever has the most check-ins at a location becomes the “Mayor” of that location. Here is the page for [...]
Continue Reading →Recently I came across an article by Justin Merry in the Wall Street Journal entitled Can a Ballclub’s Record Justify Its Beer Prices? . The main portion of his article is based around the idea that the price charged for a beer at the ballpark should reflect the team’s regular season record. Merry argues [...]
Continue Reading →As someone who loves to travel (even though I don’t travel enough) I love seeing the many natural wonders across our world that provide spectacular views and sights. Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Volcanoes, and other natural forms are scattered throughout the globe showing the natural beauty of the planet that we live on. I recently came [...]
Continue Reading →Todd came into town for the Gov2.0 Summit last week, and in additional to dropping off a terabyte worth of data from Afghanistan, he talked a bit about what has made the “beer for data” program work at the Taj. Outside the universal thirst for beer data sharing success boiled down [...]
Continue Reading →In July at State of the Map Andrew Turner announced the release of our open source geocoder gem. Since then it has been tried, bugs have been found and we’ve continued to improve it.
Following that announcement we’ve integrated our geocoder into GeoCommons. [...]
Continue Reading →Atrazine, a herbicide banned in the European Union in 2004 but still widely used in the US, has recently been in the news due to lawsuits and the release of EPA’s atrazine monitoring data. Thanks to the Huffington Post who made the data public, GeoCommons now has in Finder! annual averages and [...]
Continue Reading →In the course of working with Todd Huffman on the Afghanistan elections we came across the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) results page. As results have been posted we’ve kept a running tally at each release, and have updated the results on our dashboard accordingly. Working with each release (10%, 17.2%, 35% [...]
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