The annual Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference that concluded in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday was extraordinarily rich in useful free tool tools for all sorts of data analysis and visualization, thanks to invitations accepted by computer scientists from Google, MIT, Stanford and the like. Here are links to 13 of these free tools that I found to be particularly useful for data analysis in journalism.
GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library Select language: [English][Russian][Portuguese][French/Francais] GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing. The NEWS page describes the November 2009 GDAL/OGR 1.6.3 release.
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.
JOSM goes multi data layer July 18th, 2007 The latest JOSM now supports multiple data layers again. This was requested since about the day after I removed the feature over a year ago ;-) . As another big data source hits the main database (AND’s nethe
Once you’re through with this article, there’s a followup that shows how to also make them clickable. Many people find the object-oriented aspect of JavaScript to be very confusing. Fortunately, the designers of the Google Maps API have managed to ma
TerraFly ® changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and our system will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth.
TerraFly ® changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and our system will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth.
I posted an updated tech demo of RhNav - Rhizome Navigation visualizing user behavior of this blog. The graph is now centered around the page where most time is spent. Noise created by search engine robots is filtered which should clear things up quite a
Using RhNav - Rhizome Navigation I wrote a data aggregator for Technorati's API. The first result is a video which visualizes blog domains by analysing Technorati's Cosmos (the blogs which link to a particular URL). The video is a screencast of RhNav fetc
We're pleased to be introducing our new TopoZone Pro service, adding shaded relief maps, high resolution aerial photography, street maps, and a whole lot more to TopoZone. We think TopoZone Pro makes TopoZone the complete source for Web maps of all kinds
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F. Schmid. Proceedings of the 4. Internat. Symposium on Location Based Services & TeleCartography, 0, Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics, HongKong Polytechnic University; HongKong, (2007)
F. Schmid. Proceedings of the 4. Internat. Symposium on Location Based Services & TeleCartography, 0, Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics, HongKong Polytechnic University; HongKong, (2007)
G. Look, and H. Shrobe. IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, page 309--312. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)