GIS Dev Cafe

So far this series has focused on a variety of themed election maps, from the standard interactive electoral distribution map to specialized subjects such as party based book buying habits and battleground state issue break down distribution maps. In today’s posting I plan on focusing on an entire web site and not just detailed election polling number maps. The site I will be focusing on today is definitely a treat for statistics lovers. But, even if statistics instill fear into your heart, you definitely should check out this site because I believe it is probably the most complex and most complete election data and information source on the internet. Continue Reading »

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In this presidential election season the media has focused heavily on “Key Battleground States”, or must win states. Allot of this focus in the media has targeted the all important “swing vote” as the time to election nears. Recent polls still indicate that swing voters play heavily into the outcome of this election. What exactly are the “Battleground States” and what exactly are the key issues in those states and where are they geographically? Continue Reading »

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In the first post of this series I presented a gallery of Google offered maps, including the standard red\blue poll map. In this installment I want to lighten things up a little bit. As stated in my first post, the principle goal of this series is to look at various online map offerings related to the 2008 elections. As I have already done a standard poll based electoral map, I figured I would highlight something a little different in this post, the Amazon.com Political Book Buying Map. Continue Reading »

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As we are all aware the presidential election is less than a month away. Accompanying this year’s election season are all the wonderful online maps that have been created to give depth to the progress of the campaigns and to visualize poll and election data. This is the first part of a multipart series exploring the myriad of presidential election online maps.
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Tonight(Tuesday 7th 2008) is the second presidential debate between Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Barack Obama. While the debate is interesting in itself, what is more interesting is what viewers at home are searching for in their browsers during the debate. Thanks to Google, this information is available with their Trends page which keeps a running tally of the most popular search terms entered into Google. Continue Reading »

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I never thought I would live to see the day I would be waiting for over 20 minutes to get gas. Atlanta and the southwest were hit hard by the gas shortages caused by the oil refinery shutdown caused from hurican Ike, leading to weeks of empty pumps and long lines at stations that had gas. But, that has finally loosened up a little and things here in Atlanta are starting to return to normal.

I remember the weekend that Ike hit Texas. My tank was 1/4 full and I did not think to fill up on Friday. It was a Sunday and I had heard that gas was growing scarce. I work 40 miles from my home and became a little worried about having gas the next day to get to work. I drove out to get gas and was amazed to find almost every gas station empty, pumps covered with no gas. Continue Reading »

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