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AI isn’t coming… it’s here!
AI isn’t coming… it’s here!
Over 6 years ago The robots aren’t coming, they’re here, I wrote: I saw a non-anthropomorphic robotic future, where machine learning and AI…
Carbon footprint through time, II
Carbon footprint through time, II
Map using Equal Earth not Web Mercator projection
Carbon footprint through time
Carbon footprint through time
Map using proportional not choropleth symbology
The web is safer than the desktop
The web is safer than the desktop
I rode this weekend the bullet train to Paris that put Bordeaux within two hours. And did the French rail network worry about displaying…
Open data mapping workshop
Open data mapping workshop
This is the opening page to class notes I just posted on DropBox with data.
The Internet? It’s complicated!
The Internet? It’s complicated!
In 1986 the local telco optically wired the city of Calgary, W Canada, for free, betting it would recoup its investment in business network…
Geodata, privacy and all that
Geodata, privacy and all that
For those who follow geo-news, Strava made the headlines for all the wrong reasons recently. Joseph Kerski’s Spatial Reserves blog covered…
Standards and Metadata, Part X
Standards and Metadata, Part X
Welcome to the tenth (!) instalment of my series posted here, on my blog and my original website. In this year’s AGI GeoCom17 lightning…
Almost Open Data
Almost Open Data
Note: this is Part II of a 2½ year old blog post … now HOW open is open?
The Future of Maps is ‘squishy’
The Future of Maps is ‘squishy’
“Hello all you cyberheads! Welcome to the 90’s version of intimacy…you can hear me, you can even see me, but you can’t touch me!”
Putting the Horse back before the Cart in Data Science
Putting the Horse back before the Cart in Data Science
Ian White recently said “…. the biggest limitation of what I refer to as ‘data science thinking’ [is] letting technical skills drive the…
Crowdfunding stories
Crowdfunding stories
This view out the window is that of a car in a yard with a hedge. But I can only tell you that because I took that photo, and you have to…
A tale of two cities
A tale of two cities
While the merger of these two companies is well covered by the press, let me tell you a story from the perspective of a Canadian trying to…
Maps that tell a story
Maps that tell a story
The UK general elections this week are well covered elsewhere, and its results are complex. But while BBC News lays out all the details in…
Always have an IT backup plan
Always have an IT backup plan
A recent story in The Conversation “BA meltdown: crisis researcher caught in the chaos reports on a massive airline failure” and the news…
The “new normal” in business, Part II
The “new normal” in business, Part II
The banner image is from The Weird Thing about Today’s Internet in The Atlantic : the author muses on the concentration in the US Pacific…
The robots aren’t coming… they’re here!
The robots aren’t coming… they’re here!
In my last LinkedIn Pulse post, I saw a non-anthropomorphic robotic future, where machine learning and AI will take on many of the business…
The “new normal” in business
The “new normal” in business
Business partners LINQ Ltd state “The ‘new normal’ is to think differently about project change and transformational programmes”, I…
Standards and Metadata, Part IX
Standards and Metadata, Part IX
This is a follow-on to my series posted on my blog and my original website. Part VIII focused on metadata for the geo-spatial. Let me…