Thanks to Geography Professor Duane Griffin's spooky 'Santa vs. Satan' map submission (deemed one of the 'all-time greats' - see below), Bucknell has scored a knock-out in round one of the Floatingsheep blog's Christmas map contest. The Floatingsheep blog - a favorite amongst mapping, visualization and social media enthusiasts - was founded two years ago by Dr. Matthew … [Read more...]
Where 2.0
The 2011 Where 2.0 conference is wrapping up today in Santa Clara, CA. Over the course of the week, many of the presentations have been streamed live over the conference website. I'm including a few YouTube videos for some of noteworthy presentations. Jack Dangermond - CEO and founder of Esri: "Living Maps - Making Collective Geographic Information a … [Read more...]
Mapping happiness
New social media mapping sites are popping up all over the place these days - whether it's crisis-mapping sites like Sinsai.info or this new 'happiness' map from PhD student Alex Davies. Davies, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, created a statistical model to analyze the sentiment (happy or sad) of Tweets from around … [Read more...]
Map Your Music Memories
The Grammys and Music Is Life, Life is Music have launched a new mobile app that allows you to tag locations on a map with a music marker - could be the club you're going to see a show at later this weekend, the place you heard a song for the first time, or any other music-related comment or memory. From the Grammys blog: "You can share your tag by posting to your … [Read more...]