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Yesterday we announced that we were making Analysis functions available or everyone on the GeoIQ community site, GeoCommons. As Sean pointed out, this is a revolution in opening access to the tools for anyone to ask their own questions of data without requiring desktop tools or long-training. It’s our hope that through open analysis [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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When we were doing the Twitter Black Friday analysis I started to get curious about how Tweets can give us insights to the trajectories of people. Lots of folks travel over Thanksgiving and likely even more get out of the house on Black Friday to do some shopping. We were curious how far from [...]

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Feast of Analytics

On January 6, 2011 By Andrew Turner

Last month we shared our thoughts and plans on making analysis social in the 12 Days of Analytics. No longer will querying and understanding data be limited to complex operational processes and individuals – but people working collaboratively and [...]

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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 [...]

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Today we are again visited by the ghost of analytics future – Prediction Across Datasets. On the 3rd day of Analytics, Kate showed us prediction within a dataset. Most other analytics tell us what [...]

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It has been fun to watch different members of the GeoCommons team provide their take on each of the analytics we’ve created. This is really just the tip of the iceburg of what is possible. The real excitement is what analytics you, the user, will create. In addition the pre-baked analytical tool you also have [...]

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Today we’re going to have some fun, okay, fun in the geeky GIS analyst kind of way (the only kind I know!). Nevertheless, if you follow this blog…then…well you know what I mean.

Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. Remember when you all were kids, still learning how to become the best geo-spatial [...]

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The 5th Day of Analytics – Buffer

On December 10, 2010 By admin

Carrying on with The 12 Analytics of Christmas, let’s take a look at one of the simplest yet most powerful analytics feature – Buffer. In a nutshell, Buffer allows you to set a perimeter around your points, lines or polygons by a specified distance. So if you want to show a ‘noise’ perimeter [...]

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