From the monthly archives: August 2011

Last Week I participated in a panel with spatial archival experts at the at the Society of American Archivists. Led by Butch Lazorchak of the Library of Congress, and also joined by Steve Morris from GeoMAPP, and John Faundeen from USGS, the panel was a full spectrum discussion of “Geospatial Data Preservation” ranging [...]

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I was pulling together some data for a customer following Hurricane Irene today and kept running into the same problem.  Folks creating KML and GeoRSS feeds with awesome statistical data, but leaving it all mixed up with text in a description field.  The folks at Google put up a really nice Hurricane Irene response map and [...]

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As we’ve done more work analyzing the spatio-temporal dimensions social media a few questions come up repeatedly.  Leading the charge is the bias of social media – Twitter is just a collection of pre-teens and bots discussing Justin Bieber.  The implication being that social media does not provide a representative sample of the population.  For example there is likely [...]

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OSCON 2011 Recap

On August 1, 2011 By Chris Helm

Andrew and I both attended, and spoke at, O’Reilly’s OSCON 2011 last week. All around it was a great experience. There was never a session with less than two talks worth seeing.

On Monday Andrew spoke at the OSCON Data “sub-conference” about exploring ways to play with (analyze and visualize) personal and private [...]

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