After the recent presidential election, I was updating my graphs of the voter registration data and noticed that the number of registered voters decreased after the election. At first I thought that was odd, but then I realized that maybe inactive voters were being purged. I wanted to find out […]
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During my morning commute I heard an interesting news story on NPR’s Morning Edition about the merits and risks of the $100 bill. Apparently there are a lot of them in circulation, but no one knows exactly where they are. According to the report, they are seldom used for legitimate […]
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A topic that’s been in the news a lot lately is the presidential power to grant pardons, commutations, and such. But all the articles I’ve seen just quoted numeric totals – I haven’t seen a graph of the data anywhere! So I set out to find the data and graph […]
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Colors are the subject of many romantic poems and songs, but there isn’t much romance to be found in their hexadecimal values. With apologies to Van Morrison: …Skipping and a jumping In the misty morning fog with Our hearts a thumpin’ and you My cx662F14 eyed girl When it comes […]
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Doing business in a global economy, have you ever found yourself wanting to show Chinese (or Korean, or Japanese) labels on a map? If so, then this blog is for you! Before we get started, here is a photo of some Chinese characters to get you into the mood. This […]
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I usually create very technical maps, to display data spatially – and they usually have a certain look. They’re clear, crisp, and to the point. I typically only use color to represent the data, and I choose a font that is simple and easy to read (such as arial). But […]
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Are you one of those people who get easily bored at amusement parks? Would you like something to do while your friends/family are waiting in line for a ride? Perhaps I have an alternate ides, to keep you busy – survey markers! When surveyors are measuring and marking areas for […]
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Are you interested in taking an advanced course on the machine learning topic of Neural Networks? Does text mining on unstructured data sound interesting? Interested in becoming a certified predictive modeler using Enterprise Miner? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then your first step is likely to […]
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