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data
- Open Buildings
Google has released a massive dataset of building footprints, extracted from high resolution satellite imagery: The dataset contains 1.8 billion building detections, across an inference area of 58M km2 within Africa,ā¦
- Census GPT
Census GPT is an open source tool put together by a new team working on product applications for GPT-4. It lets you write natural language questions to query the US Census database ā things like the cities in Floridaā¦
- Rolling Windows for Goal Tracking
Since the beginning of 2019 I've been tracking ongoing goals using a Google Sheet I made, where I can enter each activity day by day and generate a rollup showing how I'm tracking on each goal throughout the course ofā¦
- Weekend Reading: COVID Edition
āļø COVID and Forced Experiments Benedict Evans looks at what could return to normal after coronavirus, and what else might have accelerated change that was already happening. "Every time we get a new kind of tool, weā¦
- rt.live
Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram, has been working on this site that gives up-to-date reads on Rt by state, giving a read on how fast the coronavirus is spreading. These are up-to-date values for Rt, a key measureā¦
- Weekend Reading: Chess, COVID Tracking, and Note Types
ā Chess Tom MacWright on chess. Reduce distraction, increase concentration Once you have concentration, you realize that thereās another layer: rigor. Itās checking the timer, checking for threats, checking for any ofā¦
- Library 2.0
Since I began tracking my reading habits a year and a half ago, I've been able to keep up with it regularly. It lives in a Google Sheet and allows me to log dates I started and finished books, attributes about them, rā¦
- Weekend Reading: Landgrid, Quantified Self, and Tesla Teardown
š Landgrid This is a product from Loveland Technologies, with a cohesive dataset of parcel boundaries provided as an API for application builders. More on their parcel data and how they do it here. š¤³š½ My Quantifiedā¦
- Books and Microdata
Tom posted a while back about his book review section, and adding schema.org microdata to those pages for book review-related data. The promise of these schema standards is to provide a semantic markup framework for uā¦
- Reading Metrics
Since I began tracking my books in a spreadsheet in 2018, I've got a bunch of data I can now look at on my reading habits. One thing I took a stab at was a "duration chart" that could show the reading patterns over tiā¦
- Beautiful News
An interesting idea for looking at data. Rather than the typical negative, dour news you read daily, this site presents data demonstrating positive progress. Examples: US Cancer Survival Rates are Rising African Countā¦
- What's Your Delta?
On comparing yourself to others: We all have a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. You have one. I have one. And this story is what we use to judge our successes and our failures. But itās not the only story thatā¦
- Weekend Reading: Kipchoge's 2 Hours, Future Ballparks, and the World in Data
šš¾āāļø Eliud Kipchoge Breaks 2-Hour Marathon Barrier An amazing feat: On a misty Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge ofā¦
- Weekend Reading: Observable Edition
This week's links are all interactive notebooks on Observable. Their Explore section always highlights interesting things people are creating. A great learning tool for playing with data and code to see how it works.ā¦
- Watts vs. Speed
After a long ride today, I was looking at the stats on Strava and wondering how wattage calculations work to determine power. Strava has a built in estimate it uses for your power rating if you don't have a power meteā¦
- Fulcrum as a Personal Database
I use Fulcrum all the time for collecting data around hobbies of mine. Sometimes it's for fun or interests, sometimes for mapping side projects, or even just for testing the product as we develop new features. Here arā¦
- Weekend Reading: The Next Mapping Company, Apple on Pros, and iPadOS Workflow
šŗ (Who will be) America's Next Big Mapping Company? America's Next Big Mapping Company?") Paul Ramsey considers who might be in the best position to challenge Google as the next mapping company: Someone is going to tā¦
- Weekend Reading: Data Moats, China, and Distributed Work
š° The Empty Promise of Data Moats In the era of every company trying to play in machine learning and AI technology, I thought this was a refreshing perspective on data as a defensible element of a competitive moat. Tā¦
- Mapbox Boundaries
Mapbox has built this curated dataset of administrative boundaries from country level down to local geographic units like arrondissements, prefectures, and districts. Knowing how difficult it is to aggregate and cleanā¦
- A Primer on Foresight
The last several months I've been spending quite a bit of time working on this: our geospatial data and analytical product line called Foresight. We've been in this business dating back to 2000 in various forms and usā¦
- Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity
šŗ How We Get Data Collected in the Field Ready for Use My colleagues Bill Dollins and Todd Pollard (the core of our data team), wrote this post detailing how we go from original ground-based data collection in Fulcruā¦
- Fulcrum Desktop
A frequent desire for Fulcrum customers is to maintain locally a version of the data they collect with our platform, in their database system of choice. With our export tool, itās simple to pull out extracts in formatā¦
- It's Time for a Data Bill of Rights
This is a fascinating idea, arguing that we should shift our thinking about privacy and data away from āownership.ā Since owning / renting data doesnāt afford the privacy and agency control people actually want, the aā¦
- The Library Database
I've been an avid user of Goodreads for tracking books for the last ten years. Tom MacWright wrote a post and a script utility last year to export and format items from Goodreads into pages that could work in a Jekyllā¦
- Weekly Links: LiDAR, WannaCry, and OSM Imagery
šŗ LiDAR Data for DC Available as an AWS Public Dataset >LiDAR point cloud data for Washington, DC, is available for anyone to use on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This dataset, managed by the District ofā¦
- Weekly Links: OSM on AWS, Fulcrum Editor, & Real-time Drone Maps
Querying OpenStreetMap with Amazon Athena šŗ Using Amazonās Athena service, you can now interactively query OpenStreetMap data right from an interactive console. No need to use the complicated OSM API, this is pure SQā¦
- OSM in Commercial Products
OpenStreetMap has become an undeniably powerful open data resource for industry to start taking advantage of. I gave this talk at State of the Map 2011 in Denver to show some of the things our company is doing leveragā¦