There are slim pickings in the make smarter department this past month, but there were a few things that jumped out at me. First, via Vector One, Cynthia Dietz, Map Librarian at the University of Stony Brook NY, wronte a
TED Talks has a good presentation by Bill Davenhall titled Your health depends on where you live. It’s an interesting talk on the new science of geomedicine (so new I couldn’t find geomedicine on Wikipedia). This must be
TED Talks has a good presentation by Lalitesh Katragadda titled Making Maps to Fight Disaster, Build Economies. The focus is on Google Map Maker, and how during a 2008 cyclone event in Myanmar 40 volunteers from Google d
First up in Make Smarter this month is a good GeoDjango tutorial by the folks at Linfiniti.com. This tutorial doesn’t assume Django knowledge, so it’s a good introduction to Django as well, from installation (Ubuntu/Debi
First up in the maker smarter category this month has to be FOSS4G. One of these days I’ll get there in person, but in the mean time this conference is always very good about putting presentation and workshop materials o
There’s a lot of stuff in the Make Smarter department this month, so let’s jump right in. I ran across a couple of really good Python resources available online this month. Dive Into Python 3 by by Mike Pilgrim is due ou
I share TED Talks here from time to time, though usually the subject matter isn’t geographic in nature. This one by Carolyn Steel is geographic in nature, and it’s a very interesting look at how ancient food routes shape
Slim pickings in the make smarter category this month, but I did run across a few items you might find useful. First up is Ignite, a podcast series from O’Reilly Media. From their web site: If you had five minutes on sta
Of the 30 odd feeds I have at any given time in Miro (if it wouldn’t cause domestic issues I would dump TV in a heartbeat), TED Talks are always among my favorite. This one is a bit off the beaten path for this blog, but
The O’Reilly Open Source Convention was held in San Jose last month, and a lot of the presentation materials, as well as some videos, can be found online. A couple that might be of particular interest: How Greet Is