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Category Archives: sports
Take Me Out To The Ball Park at ESRIUC!
A tip here for those of you heading to San Diego CA this July for ESRIUC. We luck out this year as the Padres have a home stand the week of UC and that means loads of opportunities to get … Continue reading
Florida Gulf Coast Eagles put on the Map
How do you show a country just exactly where little known NCAA phenom, Florida Gulf Coast University (aka. Eagles) is found? Well, naturally you have to slap a map on a T-shirt! That’s exactly what the Eagles have done and … Continue reading
Super Bowl Fun – NFL Fan Map (FandomMap) created from Facebook data
Super Bowl week is here so that means more cool data visualizations.. best BBQ, tail gate hot spots, and those awesome NFL fan maps! Here’s details of a cool fan map – I’m not sure I can agree that its … Continue reading
Posted in cartography, dataviz, facebook, maps, sports, super bowl
Building a backyard Hockey Rink? Scientists want to hear from you @RinkWatchOrg
As a child growing up in Canada, there’s no question that skating outdoors in backyard ice rinks and playing pond hockey were a huge source of fun and ate up most of my evenings and week-ends.. In 2012 a group … Continue reading
Posted in sports
Louisiana Tech Council and New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee inviting developers to New Orleans
An interesting developer event / opportunity from the Big Easy as developers are invited to participate in the Codemkrs SUPER Challenge. Codemkrs SUPER Challenge will turn ideas into apps in a two-day event on Camp Street, January 11-13. Developers are encouraged … Continue reading
Opportunity – Get Some Open Data and Build a Mobile App! The Gone Fishing Example
I’m loving this one from the Timmons Group as the company has announced details of a mobile app (iOS and Android) that they’ve developed for the Missouri Dept of Conservation. This is exactly the kind of opportunity that any developer … Continue reading
Data Viz – Avg ticket for Peyton Manning Broncos Home Opener tops NFL
Ok, I know this is off topic but yes indeed, I am a Peyton Manning fan as well as a Broncos fan so you can’t blame me for sharing this interesting data visualization (info graphic) and interesting nugget. SeatCrunch, an … Continue reading
Posted in infographic, sports
Mapping the Olympics – Olympic Medal Cartogram
Here’s another clever visualization (although I have to say that the color selection used here is pretty poor), this time from Esri using the fun cartographic display method known as a cartogram – FYI, A Gastner-Newman cartogram preserves the general … Continue reading
Mapping the Olympic Medals – An Esri Story Map
Loads of companies and online publications are mapping the Olympic metal count, including most of the large online news outlets and now Esri via their popular story map resource (http://mapstories.esri.com). The latest Esri story map is called Mapping the Metals … Continue reading
Volvo Ocean Race Live streaming available July 2-3
Having lived most of my life in port cities and also, after experiencing first-hand an awesome party in New Zealand years ago when the yachts from the Whitbread Around the World race came into Auckland New Zealand I’ve been a … Continue reading
Follow the Olympic Torch Relay Through the UK via Esri Story Map
The latest Esri Story map mashes up photos that are captured while following the 8,000 torch-bearers that are carrying the Olympic flame through 1,000 cities and villages in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Using the map, users can quickly … Continue reading
Video – Esri DevSummit Extreme Dodgeball Action
At the 2012 DevSummit in Palm Springs a number of geogeeks took part in a March Madness format dodgeball tourney. The tourney involved 16 teams and eventually was culled down to an exciting final 4. One of the 2 final … Continue reading
