We’ve been working with Twitter’s streaming API for some time and thinking about how we could effectively leverage it for geographic analysis. Especially, as sentiment analysis has made progress the possibilities for using Twitter as a leading indicator of market reaction by geography is very exciting. To this end we’ve combined location based analysis and [...]
Continue Reading →We hit an awesome milestone over the Presidents’s Day weekend – 50,000 unique datasets uploaded to GeoCommons by the community. It has been great to see the community grow, and the diversity of data that has been contributed. The most exciting part to me is all the potential ways this data can be remixed. From [...]
Continue Reading →As newspapers look to cut costs more is being asked of reporters. Newspapers with large online presence have teams of interaction designers, data analysts and cartographers. Smaller organizations can’t compete with this type of staffing, but still want to use data to enhance stories. Being that GeoCommons’ goal is to make mapping and analysis easy for everyone it is perfect for journalists looking to do research for a story or to add a map to enhance a story. Let’s see how this might work.
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Last week Andrew and I went to Redlands GIS Week. Hosted by Esri it was a conference of students, academics and professionals. Each year there is a different topic and the one covered this week was Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): Real-Time and Emergency Applications. Essentially this is how can crowd-sourced [...]
Part of our vision for GeoCommons from it’s inception was connecting the world of GIS to a larger audience. Allowing data from the world of GIS to co-mingle with end-user data – empowering a new market to make their own maps and answer new questions. There is such a rich history of GIS with decades [...]
Continue Reading →We are excited to announce the launch of IssueMap.org with the FCC. IssueMap is a project to make it easier for citizens to create their own maps and share them widely. The process is super simple. You just need a spreadsheet or table of data that references a common geographic boundary and a [...]
Continue Reading →This week, Chris Helm and I are at O’Reilly’s new Strata Conf to talk about our work in large scale geospatial data analysis and also learn more what is new and exciting in the data industry. Strata has emerged from what has become a community and ecosystem of tools, [...]
Continue Reading →Back a couple months ago Google announced the Cr-48 Chrome Notebook. Being shipped to individuals in the Chrome OS Pilot Program. I was lucky enough to be the first one in the FortiusOne office to get one. Of course the first thing I did of course was go to GeoCommons and make [...]
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