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Climate Corp. is the new name of a company started by two former Google employees that have been applying big data analysis to climate data since 2006. The company first focused on weather, compiling all the freely available data from the U.S. Weather Service, and selling the insight to businesses dependent on weather forecasts as [...]
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A Boston-based startup Sourcemap uses mapping software to calculate the carbon used to produce the things we eat, use and wear. The project began as the MIT PhD thesis of founder Leonardo Bonanni, and was first registered as a .org site, but has since become commercialized as a means for companies to communicate their environmental [...]
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Perhaps you’ve seen billboards or seen recent news coverage about a growing hunger problem in America due to the current state of the economy. Feeding America, which bills itself as the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, puts the problem in perspective with their interactive map showing the level of food insecurity in each county in [...]
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Researchers at IBM have been working on a cognitive computer chip of a different design than current sequential methods. The new approach involves parallel microprocessors with one linked to memory modules and the other linked to memory synapses with the design called a “neurosynaptic core.” With the new approach the computers are well-suited to pattern [...]
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This map just released by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory illustrates the 2,755 daytime and 6,171 nighttime heat records broken across the United States in July of 2011. Each heat record point reveals a map that almost reveals the complete outline of the contiguous United States, showing how widespread the high heat was across the [...]
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SAP has announced a new alliance with Google to display SAP’s analytics on Google’s map visualization tools for location-based intelligence. The alliance focuses on the visualization of geo-tagged data to unlock new dimensions of enterprise information and to deal with increased volumes and frequency of data. The focus here is on easily accessible dashboard-like views [...]
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Do Corridors Work? is a landing page for ongoing research by a Northern Arizona University professor and researcher to determine the effectiveness of wildlife corridors to stem the loss and fragmentation of wildlife. The site is focused on the growing trend of conservation corridors that connect diverse habitat preserves to aid biodiversity, identifying the need [...]
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The province of British Columbia is the first in Canada to launch an open data portal that allows both developers and citizens to download and explore large volumes of government information. The impressive data catalog includes 2,500 sets of data, tools to conduct research and analyze statistics, as well as tools to develop custom applications. [...]
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