The corner of 37th & Oregon is about a 15 minute walk from my house in Columbia City. Last week it was a candidate for the ignominious title of most dangerous place in America. On July 9th, a person was fatally shot there: 5 days later on July 14th, a second person was fatally shot visiting… Continue reading Analyzing Violence in South Seattle
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Finding Nearby Things in QGIS (Tutorial)
If you get excited by maps and places, here’s a reasonably common problem: I’ve got a set of locations (e.g., landmarks) I’ve got another set of locations (e.g., points of interest) and those points have additional metadata (e.g., a star rating for each place) I’d like to find all the points of interest with at… Continue reading Finding Nearby Things in QGIS (Tutorial)
Understanding The Now
While 2016 has been an annus horribilis overall (unless you’re a racist, in which case, it’s probably a magical time to be alive), it has a been a great year for books helping us attempt to understand the heady times we live in. Most people would agree that we live in a state of rapid change.… Continue reading Understanding The Now
Yukon Notes
This is a view of downtown Whitehorse from the airport. Just over 20,000 people live here (Except on Sunday afternoon when the only international flight arrives and the population expands by 2.5%). You can walk to downtown: it takes about 15 minutes and you just follow the fence around the end of the landing strip.… Continue reading Yukon Notes
Paris Notes
Wen and I went to Paris and it rained. Not a gentle mist or a light sprinkle (we live in Seattle; we don’t notice that). No: pounding sheets of rain that soaked you to the bone and swelled the Seine to levels not seen since 1982 and forced the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay to close.… Continue reading Paris Notes