michaelcolenso

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   Names with the largest count in their first appearance on the national list(nobodynamed.com)

   2 points by michaelcolenso 2mo ago|1 comments
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   by michaelcolenso 2mo ago

   In 1977, 1,117 American girls were named Kizzy. The year before, the name did not appear in the national baby-name data at all. Then Roots aired. Kizzy was the daughter played by Leslie Uggams in Roots, one of the largest television events
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   The Map Hidden in America's Birth Certificates(nobodynamed.com)

   3 points by michaelcolenso 4mo ago|1 comments
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   Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources(federalregister.gov)

   1 points by michaelcolenso 6y ago|0 comments
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   by michaelcolenso 9y ago

   The (mighty) Mackinac Bridge in Michigan has had similar problems recently. It's a suspension, not a cable-stayed bridge, fwiw. http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/mackinac_bridge_...
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   by michaelcolenso 11y ago

   This is great. Thanks Mike.
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   Secret Russian Satellite Could Have Collided with Another Object(warisboring.com)

   4 points by michaelcolenso 11y ago|0 comments
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   by michaelcolenso 11y ago

   Made with Leaflet, and data sourced from King County GIS. Github repo here: https://github.com/michaelcolenso/seattlejoy
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   Show HN: Seven Figure Seattle – Mapping King County Real Estate Sales(seattlejoy.com)

   1 points by michaelcolenso 11y ago|1 comments
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    Stylus maker Adonit releases its first iPad drawing app(theverge.com)

    1 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|0 comments
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    From Warfighter to Crimefighter: Mapping the 1033 Program(michael.colenso.org)

    1 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|0 comments
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    12 Tips for Picking the Best Domain Name(medium.com)

    3 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|0 comments
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    Archive of political ad data from the Federal Communications Commission(github.com)

    2 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|0 comments
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    From Warfighter to Crimefighter: Mapping the Militarization of the Police(michael.colenso.org)

    7 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    I think that's a great point, and I agree that it's not the ideal metric for illuminating the issue. However, I'd argue that, to a limited degree, even the "harmless equipment" acquired by Law Enforcement agencies f
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    Thanks! The source is on GitHub if you want to have a go at anything in there... https://github.com/michaelcolenso/1033-Program-Map
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    Thanks! Considering I probably couldn't even spell choropleth a month or 2 ago, I'm pretty grateful for Mike Bostock and his proclivity for documentation (for D3 and mapping concepts in general) by creating working examples. http
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    Show HN: Mapping the Militarization of Law Enforcement in the United States(colenso.org)

    11 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|7 comments
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    I mostly built it as an exercise in curiosity, but I'm certainly open to letting the universe decide what's next...
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    The data was sourced by using ogr2ogr to grab the data from an arcGIS server that the city runs and convert it to geojson. There was also an associated Sales db that I was able to query all results for, so I grabbed those and stuck them in
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    I showed this last week, but the app crashed and burned after about an hour. I'm pretty sure I figured out the issue(s) and fixed them, but I'll be interested to find out if that's really the case.
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    Show HN: Traverse City Platmap with Leaflet and D3(tcplatmap.iswordfight.com)

    5 points by michaelcolenso 12y ago|6 comments
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    We love the Dairy Lodge! The other iconic ice cream place in town is Bardon's Wonder Freeze, and they have Sputnik on their roof. http://i.imgur.com/XdF5QdE.jpg So that's awesome, too.
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    I fixed the attribution. It was being covered up by the footer. Thanks for checking it out. http://iswordfight.com/
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    Thanks! I appreciate the heads up on the attribution...I knew that, and I actually included it in the code where I add the leaflet tile layer, but I guess I need to include a leaflet control to display the attribution. Here's the code
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    Thanks! I appreciate the positive vibes. My favorite trick I learned was how to use the GDAL tools (ogr2ogr) plus Topojson to fetch the data (the geometry plus the sales db exposed on the arcGis REST endpoint) and convert it to geoJSON in o
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    I know, right? "Sexy Taxes" isn't really a thing.
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    So I believe I fixed it. I think it was b/c the socket.io server was emitting on the 'io' object on every db query, and it should have been emitting on the 'socket'. I think. It was definitely all jacked up, tho
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    Jeezers. I'll take a look at that, I guess. Thanks for the feedback!
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    by michaelcolenso 12y ago

    Yep. It's way basic, and not terribly useful other than as a novelty site. But it was fun to make. So that's good.