01-09-2013
Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy Damage: New York State Insurers’ Report Cards

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, New York State has released “Insurers’ Report Cards“. The report falls short of giving out A’s or F’s but it does tabulate all sorts of interesting data:...

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12-10-2012
TEDxSneakers

Nerds of the World, Unite! TEDx

Last week I had the great honor to speak at TEDxSMU. TEDx is the independently organized franchise of the popular TED conference where smart people from every walk of life get together to...

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10-22-2012
Satellite view of Gaylord Palms

4 reasons why GEOINT 2012 Rocked My Face Off

Now that we have all had a chance to catch our breaths from this year’s GEOINT Symposium in Orlando it is a good time for introspection. Filled with the best people and technology...

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07-31-2012
Ground photo shows face ascent, ridge descent and fall location.

Timeline of Satellite Search and Rescue

As you may have read, our good friends Gil and Ben went missing while climbing in the Peruvian Andes. We quickly realized that, even from 4,000 miles away, with current satellite imagery and...

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07-28-2012
Gil and Ben pose on the Palisades Traverse (photo: Brad Wilson)

Find Gil and Ben

As you may have heard, our good friends Gil Weiss and Ben Horne are currently missing in Peru. This hits incredibly close to home as the Tomnod crew are all climbers, explorers and...

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07-20-2012
tweetsonworld

Putting Tweets on the Map: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Twitter Big Data + Geolocation = Massive Insight It’s a simple idea: Twitter + Geo.  What are people saying and where are they saying it?  These are basic questions, but getting the answers...

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06-23-2012
BigBoulder

#BigBoulder

This week I went to the Big Boulder conference to learn about all things social data. The conference was hosted by Gnip — a reseller of the Twitter firehose as well as many...

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06-14-2012
USGIF

Rising Tides at USGIF Tech Day 2012

Tomnod was in Reston, VA last week for the USGIF Community Week and Tech Day. This great event brought together all the most influential people, companies and organizations in the “Geospatial Intelligence” space:...

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06-09-2012
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Blasphemy! 3 Lessons from Passive Crowdsourcing

[This is a modified version of my

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05-11-2012
challenge04

Where in the World? 04

  Greetings and Happy Friday!   The answer for last week’s puzzle is the Olympic Stadium in London. This stadium seats 80,000 people and be the primary site for the 2012 Olympic games....

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