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Obama campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 4, 2007 By admin

Obama campaign has spent well over $44.5 million in the first nine months of 2007 in over 600 cities and 1200 zipcode areas across the lower 48 states. The top five states account for nearly 64% of the money spent. These are:
1. IL $11.9 million
2. MA $3.9 million
3. PA [...]

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Giuliani campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 2, 2007 By admin

Giuliani campaign has spent nearly $32 million (see the note below) in the first nine months of 2007 on items that include staff payrolls, travel, credit card payments, consulting, media etc. The top five states account for nearly 75% of the money spent that include more than 440 cities and over 870 zipcode areas in [...]

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Romney campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 2, 2007 By admin

Romney campaign spent more than $56 million (see the note at the end) in the first 9 months of 2007 in nearly 1,300 zipcode area of more than 740 cities across the lower 48 states. By far they have outspent major candidates of either party. In the two crucial caucus/primary states of Iowa and New [...]

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1= 100: the strange equation from the Annals of Crack Cocaine Sentencing!

On November 13, 2007 By admin

1 = 100?
It is according to the Drug Quantity Table, where 1 gram of crack cocaine equals 100 grams of powder cocaine; part of the drug equivalency formulae born out of the 80s overblown media hype and of mandatory minimum sentencing law passed by the Congress in 1986. Although prison sentence [...]

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Myths of Crowdsouring

On November 3, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Figured I would keep on the crowdsourced data theme going with some myths I’ve seen crop up in many people’s perception of crowdsourced data and its reliability. First lets take a step back and look at a definition of crowdsourcing, ” [the] act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, [...]

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Improving the Value of Forecasts Through an Online, Interactive Mapping Environment: The Example of Wildfire Planning

On November 3, 2007 By admin

The Utility of Maps in Hazard Forecasting

The recent wildfires in Southern California remind of us of just how important hazard forecasting has become in helping to ensure the safety and welfare of the public and the role that mapping can play in the process. Short-term forecasts of fire direction and intensity were pivotal [...]

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Why Pay for Data? Even Pirate Attacks are Free!

On October 17, 2007 By Sean Gorman

We’ve been playing around lately with some new data visualization techniques, so I started poking around to see what approaches have been generating buzz of late. In the process I came across Stamen Design’s very cool “Oakland CrimeSpotting” via Brady’s post on O’Reilly Radar. We’d been really impressed with what they did [...]

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GeoWeb / GIS Convergance: Ubiquitous as Spreadsheets?

On September 25, 2007 By Sean Gorman

There were two great articles that popped up in the last week or so that I’ve been trying to carve out some time to blog about. The first was an insightful overview of the GeoWeb from The Economist called “The World on Your Desktop“. One of the major points in The Economist article is [...]

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ESRI and Jane's Information Group Partner Up

On September 12, 2007 By Sean Gorman

An interesting press release floated across GISuser yesterday on ESRI striking a strategic partnership with Jane’s to make their data available through ESRI tools. What I found intriguing was a service like Jane’s, which targets a non-technical audience, using ESRI, which has a largely technical user base, as channel to disseminate their data. [...]

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The state of Labor Unions

On September 2, 2007 By admin

It’s almost 125 years ago that the first workingmen’s holiday was celebrated (Tuesday, September 5, 1882) in New York. Over the next dozen years nearly 27 states recognized this holiday and in 1894, the U.S. Congress enacted it as a Federal holiday.

Among many things, the holiday has come to symbolize [...]

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