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  • Watching “Fort McMurray” grow

    A new data set was recently released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Land Use for 2010. As I was poking at it I saw that this data set in turn leads to an interactive map in which one can explore not only the 2010 data set, but also 2000 and 1990. As I was poking at

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  • Some map-making exploration with Geosheets

    GISLounge has a great post called How To Make a Map From Open Data Using a Spreadsheet, which is actually using Google Sheets specifically. Earlier today, I also tripped across a post highlighting an excellent visualization of how to choose beer based on ABV and IBU values. That post lead me to the original data set, which

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  • 4 Easy & Secure Ways to Record Screen Videos on iPhone or iPad: A Comparative Guide

    I received an email from JP letting me know that a link on an old post of mine, The definitive guide to iOS screencasting, was no longer good.  He knew that 'cause he'd just finished writing a much more comprehensive post called 4 Easy & Secure Ways to Record Screen Videos on iPhone or iPad:

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  • Open Data For the Loss, or the Win?

    Two seemingly-contradictory open data stories crossed my path today. First, The Scholarly Kitchen notes that Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World, and one of the reasons may be that the PLOS ONE, the current Largest Journal, requires   authors to make β€œall data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without

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  • Two web-based communication tools

    Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried either of these, but have heard the results of the first one, and the second one is such a good review it must be worth a look, right? πŸ™‚ First up, a web-based podcast-recording studio called Cast. Awful name, IMHO, as it's hard to find amongst all the ChromeCast results

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