Data

• May 23, 2013Data, Education, GeographyAwareness

  Upcoming Hack for Change: National Day of Civic Hacking

  Intel Labs is sponsoring a national civic hacking event June 1 -2, 2013 in order to solve community challenges using publicly-released data. They are calling it the National Day of […]

• March 6, 2013Data, WebMapping

  Mapping Baseball Statues and Google

  The Guardian UK online has a media section called, “Data Store: Show and Tell“, which true to its name uses visualizations to tell a story about data. According to The […]

• April 17, 2012Data

  Visuals Relieve Brain Overload

  A BBC article, “Pretty Pictures: Can Images Stop Data Overload?” by business reporter, Fiona Graham, supports what many geospatial researchers have argued about the many reasons for business to use […]

• April 13, 2012Data

  World Bank Joins Open Data Movement

  The World Bank has announced it will be joining the open data movement as of July 1st. All of its research and associated data will be found on a portal […]

• March 28, 2012Data, Human Geography

  County to County Migration Data Released

  The US Census Bureau has released county to county migration for the 2005-2009 period.  The data shows how people are moving around the US between counties.  I was rather surprised […]

• March 13, 2012Data

  New York City Data Transparency Law Goes Into Effect

  New York City has just implemented an open government data law that is now in effect.  The Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications will post standards and then existing data […]

• February 8, 2012Data, Remote Sensing

  Data Fusion Contest

  The 2012 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest is up and running and something that you should think about participating in. While with ever increasing spatial and spectral resolutions in the […]

• December 21, 2011Data, Education, Environmental, general

  Project Bird Feeder Watch

  It’s that time of year again in North America, Project Bird Feeder Watch for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada.  It is a great opportunity for an easy to […]

• December 1, 2011Contest, Data, Education

  Kaggle

  Kaggle is a website company that holds predictive modeling competitions for prize money. It’s premise is that there is a lot of data out there that needs to be analyzed […]

• October 27, 2011Cool Stuff, Data

  Royal Society Opens Its Archives

  Prepare to watch today’s productivity sink like a log tied with rocks and encased in a block of cement. The Royal Society in the UK has thrown open its archives […]