Where 2.0 and Crisis Mapping
Our own Doug McCune, SpatialKey engineer extraordinaire, will be presenting a session about Crisis Mapping at Where 2.0 in San Jose this Thursday, April 1st. If you are attending the event, please come to Ballroom III at 4:50pm. Analyzing conflicts via maps is not new. For centuries generals and politicians have moved pushpins on maps to [...]
More data, yet we can see things better
A colleague forwarded me the link to a great IBM ad that encapsulates what businesses are dealing with today as far as data. We don’t have that type of ad budget at SpatialKey, but if we did, our message would certainly be in line with IBM’s. The future is not less data, but more. And this [...]
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 and growth (improvement [...]
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 [...]
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