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GeoIQ team at Where2.0, JSConf, FOSS4G-NA
As is typical of Springtime, the GeoIQ team will be out and about in the world presenting and meeting at a number of upcoming events. The first, and personally the one I’m always most excited about,...
View ArticleJust in Time Analytics – Kanban for Big Data
Where is wrapping up this year, and thought I’d post up our presentation on streaming analysis. Since the slides themselves are mostly images I figure a little narrative might be helpful. Just in Time...
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World Bank Annual Meetings
This weekend the World Bank hosted their Spring Meetings. As part of the event, the World Bank Institute extended the Mapping for Results to move beyond the in-depth maps and data to tell stories...
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Visualizing our Changing Climate with Climascope
Last year we worked closely with the US World Wildlife Fund to develop the capability to upload and share climate modeling data through GeoIQ. Today you can explore the changing world at Climascope....
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TechCamp
This week I am leading tech training at the TechCamp events in Tel Aviv and Ramallah discussing open mapping platforms for sharing and visualizing data. TechCamp is part of Secretary of State Hillary...
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Power of a Web Platform
One of the most rewarding parts of our work is seeing how the tools we build are used in new and unexpected ways. While we frequently work with customers and users to solve particular problems, we...
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Building from the Inside: GeoIQ joins Esri
When we launched GeoCommons in 2007 we wanted to bring geographic data and analysis to everyone. Today more than 50,000 users have contributed over 125,000 open data sets, which have been shared 20...
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Esri DC Development Center plans
cross posted at Esri ArcGIS blog A little more than a month ago our team from GeoIQ joined with Esri to create the Washington DC Development Center. We’ve been busy over that month defining our...
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Testing Social Media Viability for Disasters at Camp Roberts
Earlier this August we (Brendan Heberton and myself) had the chance to visit Camp Roberts to participate in John Crowley & Co’s humanitarian relief experiments. On this trip we wanted to begin...
View ArticleCrisisCamp Sandy
This weekend, volunteer hackers and technologists convened at CrisisCamps in over 10 cities and virtually online to assist in developing tools to assist the ongoing response and recovery for people...
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Modeling Twitter sentiment during the Oscars
With over 6.4 million tweets shared amongst friends during the Academy Awards, peaking at over 85,000 tweets per second during Michelle Obama’s presentation of the Best Picture award, there have been...
View ArticleHelping to Pioneer Real Time GIS with Social Streams
The proliferation of mobile, social and sensor data has given us a new playground for analysis and visualization. It is an area we’ve been particularly excited about from our earliest experiments...
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The evolution of discussion around the Boston Marathon events
When the Esri DC Dev Center team first found out about the reported explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, we immediately tuned into Twitter to capture live discussions so that we could...
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Histogram Time Slider
Cartography enables us to easy identify patterns and information of spatial data. However a static view limits our understanding of the temporal aspect of changing data. The new histogram time slider,...
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Investigating Linked Open Data
Our team is embarking on a few ambitious open data projects. There are well documented practices and principles of open data. In particular, Tim Berners-Lee highlighted his 5 stars of Open Data where...
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Resources for Leveling up your Javascript-Fu
In the six+ months since joining Esri, I’ve spent nearly all my time learning, writing, debugging, re-learning, designing, debugging, unit testing, debugging and refactoring javascript. It’s been a...
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Looking Ahead: Javascript in 2014
Ah 2013, what a great year you were – returning to full-time development has been a fantastic change of pace, and I’m super excited about what the next year will bring. In that spirit, here are a few...
View ArticleFeature Layers from Map Services
Here is a lesser known fact: using the ArcGIS Javascript API, you can create a FeatureLayer from any vector layer in a MapService. Of course it will be read-only, but you still have all the usual...
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Working Around Min/Max Scale
Another quick trick when using the Esri Javascript API. If you run into a scenario where the service you are accessing has min/max scales applied, but you need the data outside that scale range, here...
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Truth in Numbers: Telemetry for Javascript Apps
Designing an application is really a set of educated guesses about what features users will actually use. We do interviews, conduct user testing sessions, and use our existing understanding of the...
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