New York City Census Analysis — Using Google Fusion Tables
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Simple wins out every time. Case in point, working with demographic information. Sure you can spin it up all up in a spatial database, analyse it with R and then output some pretty PDFs. Or just roll it all in to Google Fusion Tables and output this beautiful thing.
John Keefe shows how he did it. Spoiler alert!
Using Google Fusion Tables made it super easy to manage, map and serve up a lot of data. And the FT feedback team was fantastic about responding to questions and glitches I encountered along the way.
Data.gov Could be “Tabled”
RRW is reporting that sources say Data.gov and other open gov sites could be turned off.
Today the Sunlight Foundation and Federal News Radio reported that the public projects Data.gov, USASpending.gov, Apps.gov/now, IT Dashboard and paymentaccuracy.gov as well as a number of internal government sites including Performance.gov, FedSpace and many of the efforts related the FEDRamp cloud computing cybersecurity effort would be taken offline in coming weeks due to budget cuts by Congress.
So the spring of open data websites has hit the autumn of budget cuts. Don’t worry about bigger budget issues as our government is totally on top of things. Remain calm, all is well…
Data.gov Could be “Tabled”
RRW is reporting that sources say Data.gov and other open gov sites could be turned off.
Today the Sunlight Foundation and Federal News Radio reported that the public projects Data.gov, USASpending.gov, Apps.gov/now, IT Dashboard and paymentaccuracy.gov as well as a number of internal government sites including Performance.gov, FedSpace and many of the efforts related the FEDRamp cloud computing cybersecurity effort would be taken offline in coming weeks due to budget cuts by Congress.
So the spring of open data websites has hit the autumn of budget cuts. Don’t worry about bigger budget issues as our government is totally on top of things. Remain calm, all is well…
Best Day of the Year - 2011 Edition
Put me in coach, I’m ready to play!
Best Day of the Year - 2011 Edition
Put me in coach, I’m ready to play!
NoGIS - The Engine Behind NeoGeography
So another year has gone by and we need yet another meme to wrap our hands around. Strait from the NeoGeography crew, we’ve got something new we can play with.
As with anything, everyone is quick to say we’ve all been doing this since the 1960’s so ignore it and move on unless you’ve got one of the following to accomplish:
- Give talk at some 2.0 conference, NoGIS will put fannies in the seats.
- Want to write a book; clearly we need textbooks on the subject.
- Need differentiator between your product and ArcSDE/PostGIS/SQL Server/Oracle Spatial
- Just like to shoot the shit about crap
The NoGIS Club line forms at the right folks.
NoGIS Club
The NoGIS Club is forming, no Esri allowed!