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Thoughts: ESRI Developer Summit 2014

Last week I attended the ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA.  This was my first venture inside the ESRI world, and I came away impressed.  As a one man wolf pack in my office, it’s not always easy to … Continue reading

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Census Reporter Amazon EC2 with TileMill and MapBox

My latest blog posts have been purely about accessing Census Reporter data.  That’s important as a foundation, but now it’s time to bring it all together and see how we can use this resource (and other amazing resources out there … Continue reading

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Connect Amazon EC2 to PgAdmin

In my previous post I gave some detailed instructions on how to connect Census Reporter’s EC2 database to MS Access.  While sufficient for the purposes of most demographers, I realize that some may prefer to access the database in a … Continue reading

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Using Census Reporter’s Amazon EC2 Database

Welcome to your new American Community Survey Data platform. For most demographers, ‘the cloud’ and ‘big data’ are nothing more than corporate buzzwords, often found in various combinations with business-speak nonsense such as ‘best practices’ and ‘leveraging core competencies’.  Most … Continue reading

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Bruce Springsteen – Touring Heat Map

My latest project has been to take a career’s worth of Bruce Springsteen tour dates (data courtesy of The Timoney Group) and try to make sense of it all.  While I admit to being just a casual fan of Springsteen, … Continue reading

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