visualization

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 [...]

Where are the Loud Neighbors? Late Night Noise in Sacramento, CA

The Sacramento Police Department makes their dispatch database publicly available via monthly text files.  These files are exported from Sacramento’s Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which supports police dispatch and response functions in their 911 center.  These files include information about each dispatch, including details like date and time, type of call – from homicides [...]

New Basemap Styles

We partner with MapQuest for our basemaps.  Today, they announced new map styles and imagery improvements, and we like ‘em!  The cleaner styles help the symbolizations of user data stand out.

The First International Crisis Mapping Conference – ACLED Demo

We’re excited to be at the first International Crisis Mapping Conference in Cleveland, OH for the weekend.
While at ICCM2009, we’ll be discussing some of our work with ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset).  The ACLED project was founded by Dr. Clionadh Raleigh and team members from the PRIO Centre for the Study of Civil [...]