When we launched GeoCommons three years ago we had high hopes that it would turn into the vibrant community that it is today. However, I must admit that from a technological standpoint we did not fully predict what the underlying GeoIQ platform would become – a complex, scalable set of [...]
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This week I was at SxSW Interactive, for those that aren’t familiar it is a 5 day conference about new technology. I was there to be on a panel about “Interoperable Location Data” with Josh Babetski from Mapquest, Adam DuVander of Programmable Web, Scott Raymond from Gowalla and Tyler Bell of Factual. The premise of the panel was that many organizations are currently creating point of interest databases, but how do you combine them or allow them to interact?
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue Reading →In closing out our 12 Days of Analytics at FortiusOne we were looking for a timely analysis to perform. Also, we wanted to demonstrate one of the most powerful tools in the platform – creating your own analytic widget that you can share with the community or just a group of users. Today was the [...]
Continue Reading →In the previous ten days of analytics we went through the new analytics tools. Now I know the holidays are usually about sharing and being with others, but on the eleventh day let’s just stop and be selfish for a moment. What does that mean? Let’s analyze ourselves!
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Continue Reading →Yesterday, on the 9th Day of Analytics Matt Dew talked about “simplifying your life.” Today we are going in a different direction and are doing “simple analytics.” On the new analytics features in GeoIQ is the ability to do addition and subtraction across columns in your dataset. Seemingly a simple ability, it can [...]
Continue Reading →Over the past eight days my colleagues have introduced exciting new GeoIQ features that allow anyone to perform powerful analytics against their data, but despite their wide applicability and ease of use not one of the new analytic features is capable of automatically providing answers . . . after all is said and done, you [...]
Continue Reading →On the 2nd Day of Analytics Andrew Turner highlighted GeoIQ’s Merge capability, which allows users to consolidate the data and geographic features of multiple datasets into a single unified dataset. Merge simplifies the analysis process by allowing several small datasets to be united and analyzed together, but what if I have a very [...]
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