Mapping Parking Tickets in San Francisco (and the problem with simple map markers)
The San Francisco Chronicle’s website, SFGate.com, has a nice map showing the top locations in San Francisco where parking citations are issued. The dataset includes individual locations where 100 or more citations were issued, so it’s a map of the single places you’re most likely to get ticketed (but note that it doesn’t include the [...]
The Great Flood of 1993
USGS Water Data is a data goldmine that includes over 25,000 stations across the U.S. Each measures variables such as streamflow, water temperature, precipitation, and other hydrological and meteorological properties. Though sub-hourly readings are taken, daily data are available for many stations going all the way back to 1980. And all are available via automated [...]
SpatialKey Technology Preview
On behalf of the whole SpatialKey team here at Universal Mind, I’m happy to announce a technology preview of our SpatialKey visualization system. SpatialKey includes an advanced mapping and visualization toolset, and is designed specifically for geographic data with a temporal component. Think arrest locations, or data on the spread of a social network, or [...]
The radial expansion of Wal-Mart
The growth of Wal-Mart provides a particularly compelling use case for the SpatialKey Animation Template. Though most know of Wal-Mart’s southern provenance (Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962), the chain’s subsequent spread and resulting dominance over American retail is a more complex phenomenon. Utilizing a dataset of over 3000 Wal-Mart [...]
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