2020 & 2024 Election Results

Amazing data for all 435 congressional districts going back to 2008!

• https://www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downballots-calculations-of-presidential
• As a spreadsheet.

Drumlins in Boston Harbor

I did not know this: The Drumlin Islands of Boston Harbor

Backcountry Skiing

Here are two excellent interactive web maps: one showing the backcountry ski options around Mount Mansfield, the other in the White Mountains:

• Mount Mansfield Backcountry
• White Mountains Backcountry

I have never heard of that app (Backtrack Maps) - let's hope it stays around!

Screen Recording with Zoom

Maybe I've been under a rock...but that's a quick & easy way to record short video of yourself, introducing an online class, etc. No need anymore for a different 3rd party app: just record the Zoom Meeting with yourself, share screen , use the whiteboard, save as MP4, upload to Youtube = done!

The Earthporn Map

Unfortunate name, but there is nothing 'porn' about it - just a map of the r/EarthPorn is a subreddit: The Earthporn Map. Could be a useful tool to plan your next vacation!

How Fast Is the Earth Spinning Where You Are?

Cool little web animation - use it to better understand the Coriolis Effect: How Fast Is the Earth Spinning Where You Are?

Tariffs: Explained

 

The VOSviewer

From the website: VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. These networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on citation, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, or co-authorship relations. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.

A Geology Joke!

 

Big Data

What is Big Data? Here is a nice & practical 'definition': Big data is a dataset that is too big to be processed using MS Excel. The term 'big' can mean a variety of things: size/volume (of course),  but also update frequency (real-time maybe), containing a variety of data types, and dimensionality.