Today at the Fall Annual Meetings the World Bank is hosting a special event to highlight “Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions“. The goal is to create a dialog discussing how openness in data and knowledge can positively change [...]
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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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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 [...]
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!
There has been previous Kate-analysis in other [...]
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 →Yesterday was a significant day for mobile commerce; PayPal announced strategic partnerships with Appcelerator and Faceboook. How big is this? Christopher Mims of MIT Technology Review appreciates the potential — “a credible attempt to dominate what could soon be a trillion-dollar market for mobile purchases.”
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Continue Reading →James Fee joins in and shares his insight on supporting ESRI’s Geodatabase format and how a File Geodatabase can be shared efficiently. He agrees that the more file formats supported by a GeoData application, the more likely people will use it.
The election rallied much excitement, perhaps due in part to several [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been doing a lot of data migration and new data uploads with Finder! and often times our data team runs into data and mapping headaches. One that we commonly encounter are largish shapefiles that make for really bloated KML when we convert it (for instance a 2mb shapefile for US counties becomes [...]
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