Ramblings! I’ll tell you what I don’t know, and so much more.
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Treaty 7 Day at Fort Calgary
I just wanted to give a quick shout-out for the event being held at a Canadian national historic site, Fort Calgary, [in Calgary Alberta]. I’d give some links but couldn’t find any events listing anywhere on the net! Place: Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Date: September 22, 2017
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World Environment Day
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Statistics Canada
I took a short-term contract with Statistics Canada working on the national census that is carried out every 5 years. I thought I’d do my part by syndicating on of their videos that they produce to educate Canadians on what the census data is used for. I gotta say that the back-drop for the video…
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Data Wrangling
I really like the term “Data Wrangler”. It’s the best title I can give to those people in charge of working with large amounts of data that is often messy and poorly formatted. The proper term is “Data Analyst” and more and more it seems to imply dealing with large amounts of data. Big data. …
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Maps Online
Esri is putting out some open source API’s. Because of this there are new opportunities with creating plug-ins for WordPress. I was about to link to the ESRI Javascript API and create my own embedded map from ArcOnline. Someone beat me to it, namely Gavin Rehkemper, With the help of his brand new Plug-in…
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Days Of My Life I Can’t Get Back
I decided to update to a new computer and do a fresh install of Windows 10. The old system I was using has Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop. I say has since it is still acting as my document server. One week later and I’ve got most things working. It was so much more than…
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