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Reading and writing and … location. Visualizing where different peformance metrics correlate.

Our parent company, Universal Mind, was tasked by the Colorado Department of Education and Center for Assessment to visualize data from their innovative models for measuring student progress. The public version of that project is available at schoolview.org. SchoolVIEW has some great features to visually compare school performance in terms of proficiency [...]

Visual mapping and analysis for “regular” business users?

We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. Images from Tiananmen Square, September 11th, or the recent devastation in Haiti are universally understood and move people to action more than words ever could. Visualizing vs. reading about events is becoming more and more prevalent, with an increasing number of people receiving their [...]

The easiest way to create thematic maps by state, county, or zip code

We’ve just launched new thematic mapping features in SpatialKey that let you create maps of your data by state, county, or zip code with a few simple mouse clicks. We think this is the easiest way to create thematic maps – ever. To show off these abilities I’ll show an example of creating a thematic [...]

Building Permit Data from DataSF

Another dataset that the city of San Francisco makes publicly available is the Department of Building Inspection’s monthly permit report. This report contains all the building permit activity within the city, from permits to add new condos to inspections of sprinkler systems. We took one full year of data, from September 2008 to August 2009, [...]