The 2008 Summer Olympics are coming to Beijing, China on 8.8.08 and USA athletes are poised to place very well in the international competition. For the past four years athletes have been practicing for the games and now the time has come to represent the USA.
A dataset was created on Finder! that maps [...]
Continue Reading →While getting ready to launch Finder! we had an internal debate whether or not to put limits on dataset downloading. There were several options, ranging from requiring a user to be logged in before they downloaded to limiting the number of downloads a user could make in a day. A lot of the argument centered [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes it seems like there is a Starbucks on every corner, and sometimes it’s true! It looks as if they have finally reached their saturation point and are now closing 616 stores throughout the United States. This Finder! dataset shows the locations of the closures. We also uploaded a [...]
Continue Reading →With the MLB All-Star Game winding up I decided to write about the annual midsummer classic and other All-Star games from other sports organizations. All-Star games are a chance for the world to see the best compete against the best. Since All-Star games represent the best of the [...]
Continue Reading →Every year in Pamplona Spain thousands of people risk their lives for the thrill of being chased by a 1,000 lbs bull. This is known as the encierro, the famous tradition of the nine-day festival of San Fermín starting the 6th of July.
In honor of the festival that kicked off [...]
Continue Reading →With the rise of post-partisan Obama on the national political scene, there have been sporadic stories in the print and on-line media , in Op-Eds, on the cable-news/YouTube and in the blogs; of how some influential Republicans have turned into Obama supporters, the so called Obamacans, reverse [...]
Continue Reading →As the unprecendented Midwest floods continue to play havoc with people’s lives and property, one of the hardest hit is the farm sector. With millions of acres of farmland under flood waters, farmers are facing billions of $ worth of crops losses.
However, all is not lost for these farmers. Uncle Sam does offer [...]
Came across a great data set on Finder! (thanks Laurie) yesterday that shows how bringing the worlds of GIS and the GeoWeb together can be insanely useful. This dataset shows the 500-year flood plain for Johnson County, Iowa. This includes Iowa City. Making highly detailed and technical data easy for people to consume could potentially [...]
Continue Reading →As the outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul from raw tomatoes spreads throughout the country, we thought it would be good to track the cases over time. You can find all of these updated datasets, ready to be mapped, at Finder!.
This map, made from the dataset Cases of [...]
Continue Reading →In my last blog entry I discussed how rising gas prices have turned people to use the public transportation system at a much higher rate. This blog will be a slight continuation of this theme as I discuss the impact that the increase in gas prices has accounted for an increase in the [...]
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