Wednesday, September 30. 2009

SpatialKey Following in FortiusOne's Footsteps

I found this blog post on SFWeekly which linked to post on the SpacialKey (sic) blog. The SpatialKey Blog post details how the company, on its own, read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Operation Safe Schools, downloaded data from SFData.gov did some analysis (video below) and came to some conclusions. The post does note the conclusions have a bit of an asterisk on them, since they deal with drug busts and schools, but the data used was collected in the summer when school is out. The post also makes clear that the company has no relation to the city, but would love to speak with them. Transparency = good! There's also a step by step discussion of how SpatialKey was used which can be used as a tutorial.

I note this blog post because it parallels what FortiusOne does with its Dataset of the Day posts (blog). These tend to deal a bit more with analysis even as they highlight freely available datasets. These efforts are great resources for GIS professionals and educators. Should your organization be offering this sort of materials?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Education at 07:07 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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Here's another map, this time from an employee's personal blog. (Note to SpatialKey marketing - at least link to these other maps!)

http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2009/10/geo-mapping_artprizes_top_10.html

#1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2009-10-02 08:16 (Reply)

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