The Geography of Baseball Fans
The Major League Baseball season started yesterday. This morning while I was flipping through some highlights of yesterday’s games, I was reminded of a neat map that I cam across a few years ago. SeatGeek’s interactive map titled Where do MLB Fans Live? is an interactive map that shows which teams are the most popular teams […]
Exploring and Visualizing Data Sets
Big data and how it can be used is one of the topics that my ninth grade students are exploring this month. To that end, this week I introduced them to Google’s Public Data Explorer and Google’s Dataset Search tools. Public Data Explorer is a tool that has been around for more than a decade […]
Zip Tapestry – Demographic Data and More, Mapped
Zip Lookup is an interesting use of the ESRI mapping platform. The map allows you to enter any US zip code to discover demographic data about that area. Whenever I see something like this I am skeptical of how well it will work for very small towns like the one that I live in (South Paris, […]
How to Use Google’s Dataset Search Tool
Yesterday, I wrote an overview of Google’s relatively new Dataset Search tool. It is a tool that is designed to help users locate publicly available datasets. As I explain in the following video, datasets aren’t limited to CSV or Excel files. Through the Dataset Search tool you will find datasets in the forms of Google […]