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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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 [...]
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, [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →One of our core missions at FortiusOne is to enable many more people to explore, create, and share maps – to democratize geospatial capabilities. Even in government markets, which have been big users of GIS tools, the expense and technical sophistication required often cause bottlenecks in the preparation of maps. Government customers are also [...]
Continue Reading →Imagine a situation where as many as 25 million people in the US could go to jail for possession of illegal substance.
On average 10% of U.S. population of age 12 and above smokes pot. If these many people were affected by an infectious disease such a West Nile or Avian [...]
The maps below show individual donor contributions by zipcode areas to leading presidential candidates. The data for the maps are derived from the quarterly finance reports filed on July 15, 2007 with Federdal Election Commission (FEC).
Pan and zoom in to investigate the patterns of contributions at subregional levels in each [...]
Continue Reading →There have been several interesting blog posts of late on the demographics of Facebook and comparison to the demographics of sites like MySpace and LinkedIn. A few folks have looked at the international growth of Facebook, but I have not to date seen any discussion of the geography of Facebook. We all [...]
Continue Reading →It has been an interesting week with an article in the Washington Post and InformationWeek on the launch of GeoIQ and the upcoming data repository. Thought I‘d take some time to go into more detail with what we have in mind combing the two into the foundation [...]
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