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Dataset of the Day: AIG's small world of counterparties, credit-default swaps and mortgage-backed securities

On March 19, 2009 By admin

Last September, as the big honchos of the financial world – the regulators and the bankers – were witnessing the imminent collapse of Lehman Brothers, they realized that they were facing a far bigger problem: The possible collapse of American International Group (AIG), the biggest insurance company in the world. If AIG [...]

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Hierarchy or Folksonomy? Is there a Hybrid between Order and Chaos

On April 15, 2008 By Sean Gorman

When we started the very first iteration of GeoCommons in 2005 folksonomies were all the rage and we jumped on board using tags to organize the geospatial data that was pushed into the new platform. During the time we had the prototype deployed we ran into many of the same issues other applications have found [...]

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Map Creation Apps – Google vs. Microsoft vs. Yahoo

On April 9, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I promised Andrew a comparison of the big three map creation applications by feature and functionality, so here it goes. The story of how lightweight web based map creation applications came to be is interesting in and of itself. I think looking at how the three applications evolved historically will provide a bit of [...]

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McCain's gain is Giuliani's loss in the Winner-take-all Florida Republican primary

On January 30, 2008 By admin

The winner-take-all Republican primary awarded McCain with 57 delegates. This was his second win over Romney in nearly as many weeks. A spatial distribution of the share of votes at the county level (see the map below) shows an interesting pattern where bright hues indicate higher share of votes for a candidate compared to all [...]

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Gold for Romney and Threat of Mr. "Uncommitted" to Clinton

On January 18, 2008 By admin

Economy was the number 1 issue for Michigan Republicans and they voted in large numbers for Mr. Romney. Michigan has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the U.S. Huge job losses in manufacturing sector, mainly due to down-turn in Michigan’s auto-industry has voters worried about the future. Romney’s “optimistic” message [...]

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The New Comeback kid vis the New Kid on the block: 2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary

On January 10, 2008 By admin

Clinton’s come-from-behind stunning victory in the New Hampshire Primary makes her the New Comeback Kid. Below is a heatmap of spatial distribution of Clinton’s votes by cities/towns and places in the southern New Hampshire.

We at FortiusOne further analyzed voting patterns to find spatial distribution of where Obama, the [...]

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Gold goes to McCain: 2008 New Hampshire Republican Primary

On January 10, 2008 By admin

Romney in his concession speech referred to his second place finish as winning a silver medal, that makes McCain the gold medalist and Huckabee a bronze winner. Here are the results for the top three candidates, McCain (37% ~88,400) Romney (32% ~75,200) and Huckabee (11% ~26,600). We at FortiusOne further analyzed [...]

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Importance of Independent Voters in New Hampshire primary

On January 8, 2008 By admin

Of the 850,000 or so registered voters, nearly 44% are Independents, 30% registered Republicans and even smaller percentage (26%) are registered Democrats. And since these Indepenedent voters can vote for either a Republican or a Democratic candidate, they are indispensable for candidates from both parties.

The current surge in polls, both for Obama ( Continue Reading →

Huckabee share of Iowa Caucus votes

On January 4, 2008 By admin

Of the record number of votes (nearly 350, 600) cast in yesterday’s caucuses, Republicans share was a little over 28%, i.e., more than 116,000. That is still just 20% of the all those who are registered as Republicans. And they have managed to change the direction of the GOP nomination by voting in record numbers [...]

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Romney's share of Iowa Caucus votes

On January 4, 2008 By admin

Of the record number of votes (nearly 350, 600) cast in yesterday’s caucuses, Republicans share was a little over 28%, i.e., more than 116,000. That is still just 20% of the all those who are registered as Republicans. And they have managed to change the direction of the GOP nomination by voting in record numbers [...]

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