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Facebook Scores – Mashup with google maps, facebook data & census data

October 3rd, 2007

I looked at the facebook network for La Crosse, WI, my hometown and was impressed that there are 12,856 people on this network alone. People on facebook can belong to only one regional network at a time, so its likely that most of these users actually live in the La Crosse metro region. …read more

The true shape of the Midwest- Google Analytics

September 28th, 2007

Maybe for some people who don’t know the midwest as well as I do the google analytics visitor overlay map looks fine. However, the shape of my home state, Wisconsin, is certainly distorted and Michigan is almost unrecognizable. This overlay uses the states boundaries that extend over water. For most states that does …read more

A Methodology for Modeling Evacuation from New Orleans

May 10th, 2006

Written May, 2006
Using GIS and a lot of assumptions, this paper presents methods for evacuating the population of New Orleans. Written with Eliza Johnston.
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