The Iranian election is clearly the hot topic in the news today, but its also showing the power of social media and the openness of the internet and web based tools once again. Even major mainstream news media outlets such as CNN are relying on Twitter and Facebook to help get information across the [...]
Continue Reading →Time to Switch over to Digital TV from the old analog system. This has been coming for a long time and its finally here. From the official DTV goverment website, “The switch from analog to digital broadcast television is referred to as the digital TV (DTV) transition. In 1996, the U.S. Congress authorized the [...]
Continue Reading →We at FortiusOne have been busy monitoring the current swine flu outbreak by gathering public data to create datasets in Finder! and maps in Maker!, and we’ve even made a Swine Flu Dashboard. The outbreak is gathering a lot of attention and is now a common topic of discussion.
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Continue Reading →There has been non-stop talk about Obamas first 100 days in office, and its impact on his presidency. As the election was coming to an end economic policy was at the forefront of discussion. So, when Barack Obama took office we launched ‘The Obamameter’, which was our economic dashboard to follow the impact that [...]
Continue Reading →Health officials from across the world are currently monitoring swine flu outbreaks that are causing quite the international health scare. Mexico, which appears to be the source of the outbreak, has been hit hard with over 80 deaths and several hundreds hospitalized. Now countries around the world are preparing to fight off any possible [...]
Continue Reading →Economic Impact on Fortune 1000
CNN money just came out with its 2009 List for the Fortune 1000, the 1000 largest American companies. This list gives us an interesting look at the health of big business throughout the United States. Companies make the Fortune based on their revenues, not their profits. General [...]
With so many visitors coming to Washington, DC for the Inauguration we thought it would be handy to post up Inauguration friendly restaurants and deals in downtown DC. Check out the map here and enjoy the festivities.
Continue Reading →Flickr recently published the areal shapes of place names based on geotagged photos. Tom Taylor quickly developed a visualization for any particular place name.
The shapes are irresistible. We added a few locations into Geocommons. The data includes counts of the number of photos taken for any particular place name. [...]
The map below shows the number of terrorist incidents in India from 2005 to March 2008. Data is drawn from the WITS database. Its interesting to note that some of the regions on the map have several incidents per week, sometimes more. Click on the image to explore the data in Maker:
Continue Reading →If you’ve read the news today i’m sure you’ve heard about the terrorist attacks in India today. Information is still a bit fuzzy but some of the attack locations are known, so we mapped them out and tried to add some context for the data. Here is a quick map of Population in the Districts [...]
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