Often I have had various GeoCommons users ask me, “How do I turn my excel spreadsheet data into proportional shapes like the map below?”
Before now I would have told these users that they would have to use complicated and expensive mapping software. This would allow [...]
Continue Reading →In the past seven days Haiti has been hit with several earthquakes one of which had a magnitude of 7. We’ve been busy tracking all of these quakes and updating our public site with as much quake data as possible as well as some demographic data. We will be continuing to update our site at [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been collaborating with our co-founders back at George Mason for the last few months on a paper modeling oil dependency/vulnerability from a geographic perspective. We wrapped up the paper yesterday and it got me thinking about what a fully interactive version of the paper would look like. What if all the maps and charts [...]
Continue Reading →Farmers markets are an important part of our food system in the US both for giving citizens access to fresh and healthy produce and other locally produced products and for giving local farmers an opportunity to market and sell their products. They also play a role in providing a more environmentally friendly food source than [...]
Continue Reading →Everyone is keeping their eye on what will happen with Obama’s stimulus package. When it does pass, Obama pledges full “transparency,” so that “citizens can see how and where their tax dollars are being spent.” So as citizens, how can we best evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of projects that will be candidates for [...]
Continue Reading →I was reading Kevin Burke’s post today on the relationship between political affiliation and charitable giving, and thought it was a great example of “collective statistical intelligence“. In the post Kevin does a set of correlations between political affiliation and a generosity index then posts the results.
While the post was fascinating and [...]
Continue Reading →India wants to ban Google Earth and Wikimapia. The aftermath of the Mumbai attacks created a petition to remove all imagery of India on Google Earth and similar sites like Wikimapia. Mumbai-based lawyer Amit Karkhanis filed the petition saying, “The petition is filed against the backdrop of terror attacks in Mumbai. [...]
Continue Reading →By the end of today we will know who our next president is going to be. The first polls close at 6 p.m. in Indiana. Virginia, Georgia, Florida, and New Hampshire follow shortly after at 7 p.m. The last polls close in Alaska at 12 p.m. It seems as though the media, pundits, [...]
Continue Reading →We’re wrapping up a great time at GEOINT this week, and wanted to share just a few short posts that caught our attention about the show. Sean Gillies gives his hilarious opinion of the GEOINT blog, while All Points Joe Francica shared a biting commentary for one vendor who Continue Reading →
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