60 years of tornado activity, animated
Last Friday, an EF-4 tornado, the second-highest on the Enhanced Fujita scale, ripped through the St Lois Area. The twister caused significant damage to Lambert Airport and hundreds of homes. Miraculously, nobody was killed. According to the NOAA severe weather database, there have been 730 tornadoes of EF-4 or EF-5 scale between 1950 and 2010 [...]
SpatialKey, visual thinking, and insurance
I recently came across an interesting video about journalism in the age of data that ties directly back to why we think SpatialKey is a game-changing tool. Did you know that half of our brain is hard wired for vision? Well what wakes the SpatialKey team up at night is that we want to create [...]
SpatialKey and Insurance Data Mapping and Analysis
The insurance industry has long relied on location intelligence to assess and manage regional exposure to risk. But until recently, the geospatial analysis technologies available to help to extract this intelligence have been less than ideal. They’ve had high price tags, and their deployment, management, and use have required the help of dedicated data specialists. [...]
Law enforcement and sales management? Data is data is data.
Although business goals are drastically different from one organization to the other, it’s long been common sense to leverage analytics as much as possible to make decisions. Some organizations put together sophisticated systems to get fact-based answers to their questions, while others hack together whatever system they can afford. The great news is that analytical [...]
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