Population map – Boroughs of NYC
Wow, makers like map visualizations! JB (and a couple other folks) sent in this map of the boroughs of NYC and the populations of entire states that fit inside them!
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The astrometry pool on Flickr automatically adds labels to the astronomy photos you upload
Wow, this might be the coolest thing ever – The astrometry pool on Flickr automatically adds labels to the astronomy photos you upload. Brought to you by the folks at Astrometry.net… If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an […]
Election maps based on population
Mark Newman’s, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan election maps based on population via Waxy. I suspect in 4 years we’ll see these on all the networks doing “live morphs” from geographic view to population view on a big touchscreen with a hologram operating it… Most of […]
Giant widget
Wow, here’s a giant widget that has… everything – I put it on the extra hacked up display here until I couldn’t take the info overload via RW.
Elect-o-meter
Devon at NYCR writes – I recently updated my arduino ambient orb to use some boards I got cut at a boardhouse in Colorado, and handed off a few of the finished products off to various friends of mine. Well, my good friend John Erickson tossed together an awesome script for the election returns tonight. […]
Top 5 election day mashups
Great round up of election day “mash ups” from Jason at hackszine…. Aside from the politics, opinions, and issues involved in this election, I’ve been really interested in how the current state of web technology, survey data, online conversation and public information would be merging together into web applications and utilities for the growing digital […]
Code to scape CNN.com election results
Eric posted up a cool Python script that he’s plugging in to his lighting system to turn the colors red/blue depending on who is winning… via Hackaday. My election party tomorrow will feature DMX controlled RGB LED lighting. The color of the house should reflect the electoral balance. The color will start purple, and drift […]
