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Jack Kinsella,of the Bolivian Express,writes: “The Bolivian Express,an English language magazine in La Paz,Bolivia,set up by Bolivian graduates in collaboration with students from around the world. We are a subsidiary of the Grupo Express Press,which publishes another magazine in Bolivia,Revista Metro (http://www.metrobolivia.com/metro/default.asp). We would love if you could [...] If you've acquired a spreadsheet file with a bunch of addresses,you can quickly map them using BatchGeo. We haven't tried it yet with a huge data set,but it works nicely with a couple hundred addresses. Check out BatchGeo at http://batchgeo.com/ “Have locations in a spreadsheet? Well try this free and unique [...] 15 Crazy Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs Graphs and charts are a great way to break down the information at hand to the user in a descriptive and visually enticing manner. These visual structures allow you to easily simplify complex data and output easier to understand content. Everyone can use a graph [...] Once again,FlowingData points us to an example for first-rate mapping. San Francisco crime mapped as elevation By Nathan Yau –Jun 7,2010 –Mapping –Post on Twitter Doug McCune maps San Francisco crime in 2009 as if it were elevation. Peaks and valleys emerge [...] IAJ Fellow Patrick Mattimore,currently living in Beijing,recently wrote in China's People's Daily Online:
Media badly misplaying Foxconn suicidesPatrick Mattimore One newspaper has called the recent suicides at the electronics company Foxconn an epidemic. Another newspaper reports that Foxconn is experiencing a “spate of suicides.” Unfortunately,this is an instance of media hysteria and disregard for statistical facts which may have real world negative consequences. Taiwanese-owned Foxconn has had seven suicides this year. That sounds like a lot,but the firm has an estimated 800,000 workers,more than 300,000 of them at a single plant in …[...] [From Nextgov.com] White House to tie together mapping and data sites By Aliya Sternstein 05/28/2010 The White House has contracted with a major developer of mapping software to merge a federal website that publishes geospatial information with Data.gov,the government's depot for downloadable data sets,the company's president said on Thursday. California-based ESRI began last summer tying Data.gov to Geodata.gov,the geospatial information gateway,said company President Jack Dangermond in an interview with Nextgov. He said he expects Geodata.gov's map services,which enable Web-based applications from different sources to communicate with each other,to be available on Data.gov within …[...] From GISUser at http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=6962 Social Media and Geo-Services – A Fabulous ArcGIS Explorer,Twitter mashup Modeling real-time situations… This video goes back a few months to the Haiti disaster response,however,its a great example and reminder of how geo technology (ArcGIS Explorer in this case) and social media (Twitter) can be combined [...] Go to:http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/26/bp-tries-to-mislead-you-with-graphs/ BP tries to mislead you with graphs
BP senior vice president Kent Wells explains in this new video what his group is doing towards repairing the leak. He presents the bar graph above to show the improvement in their efforts. It's increasing,so they must be improving. Nifty. The problem is that it's cumulative,and the rate at which they're collecting isn't improving. From the Maddow blog:
Nathan at FlowingData.com posts a nice collection of traffic mapping examples. Explorations of real-world traffic
Traffic visualizations,mostly in the form of geographic maps,have been popular lately. Governments and organizations have been releasing lots of GPS data,and as a result,we get to see some impressive animations and explore some slick interactives. We don't often get to see how cars,trains,subways,airplanes,etc move in physical space,because,well,we're usually in them,so it's always interesting to see the big picture. The activity …[...] We have long been critical of newspapers'failure to marry data with real-time readers'interests. Interests like finding a cab in New York City. It's great to see the gang from the NYTimes doing some innovative mapping to truly present added-value to their product. Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City [...] | ||||||
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