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the week with Elvi
Elvi went back to her work in Buenos Aires last Sunday evening. She lives with a family in the northern suburb of Acasusso, cooking and cleaning in return for room, board, and 850 pesos/month (about...
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20th century conflict history via food fights
For Emily’s social studies lesson today, we watched this and figured who was whom and why (when, where) they were blowing each other up. An excellent home-schooling learning opportunity....
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neighborhood watch
Nice memories of my year in Lisbon, under the watchful eyes of the old women in windows.
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the Wicked Witch of Finance
I have absolutely no formal background in international economics, politics, or finance, but at some point I came across the blog of Chris Blattman and have been a faithful follower ever since. I...
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Mining (and then Mapping) Wikileaks
My colleagues from the University of Virginia have posted another step-by-step on their Spatial Humanities site, this one from Devin Becker, a digital initiatives librarian at the University of Idaho....
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Census data, a traditional approach to US social information
If you’re looking to map people across the US, there is no source of information with as much comprehensive coverage at the Census data. Of course it might not be the type of information you want, but...
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Geographicity? Say that 3 times fast.
Learned a new word today, geographicity. It’s in the title of an upcoming edX MOOC offered by a group of Swiss geographers: Exploring Human’s Space: an Introduction to Geographicity. A class designed...
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Tracking GIS&T Degrees vs. Workforce
And another thing, told in simple terms from this landing-page image you too can create from this Data USA site. That number of degrees awarded in 2016 (1,923, which they measure as growing at 5.31%)....
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