Where is wrapping up this year, and thought I’d post up our presentation on streaming analysis. Since the slides themselves are mostly images I figure a little narrative might be helpful.

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As I’ve been tracking the ongoing crisis in Syria I often felt I was only getting half the story not being able to read Arabic. This was especially frustrating when I’d check out all the rich data being generated by SyriaTracker.   Citizens in Syria are reporting on the violence through social media [...]

Right before Christmas I headed out to San Jose for a conference on social media hosted by the Office of Naval Research.  It was an interesting cross section of government research on social media and comercial social media companies that provided either  social media apps (Facebook, Google+, Yahoo) or analytics (Topsy, Radian6, SAS).  There [...]

Maps are awesome. Adding charts to a map is even more awesome. In addition to mapping data at Geocommons, users can now visualize the same data by utilizing our newly introduced charts.  The backbone of these charts was created using g.Raphael, which is based on Raphael‘s JavaScript graphics library. RaphaelJS offers the unique [...]

As the number of data sets on GeoCommons continues to grow we are constantly looking for new ways to allow users to explore the data.  A variety of recent projects have pushed us develop new tools for interacting with emerging multidimensional data streams.  Today we are pushing out a new release that gives you three [...]