Dr. Brent Hecht - University of Minnesota. ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps. WikiBrain: Homepage. Resources related to Shilad's 2014 OpenSym talk: WikiBrain's busy thinking up its first public release.
Please be patient while we fine tune our APIs and complete our documentation. Ask us questions at the WikiBrain google group! The WikiBrain Java library enables researchers and developers to incorporate state-of-the-art Wikipedia-based algorithms and technologies in a few lines of code. WikiBrain is easy to use. WikiBrain is multi-lingual. WikiBrain is fast. WikiBrain integrates a variety of specific algorithms and datasets in one framework, including: Semantic-relatedness algorithms that measure the strength of association between two concepts such as "racecar" and "engine. " An example program Once you have imported data, you can write programs that analyze Wikipedia. When you run this program, you'll see output: About WikiBrain development is led by Shilad Sen at Macalester College and Brent Hecht at the University of Minnesota.
Macalester WikiBrain development team, Summer 2013. Chairman Franken's Opening Statement on Mobile Privacy. Bhecht_thesis_final.pdf. Full Text Gateway. Www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/position/Goodchild_VGI2007.pdf. Exploratory.pdf. Crimestat.pdf. Crimemapping.pdf. Autocorrelation.pdf. Technical Report: Spatial Data Mining. Www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/Courses/Fall14/mooc/RecommendedReadings/location_based_service.pdf. Www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/Courses/Fall14/mooc/RecommendedReadings/digital_road_map.pdf. Www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/research/lbsChapter.pdf. Www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/Courses/Fall14/mooc/RecommendedReadings/location_based_service.pdf. Digital_road_map.pdf.
LbsChapter.pdf. Introduction. Step-by-step instructions for making maps This crash course walks through how to design custom web maps in TileMill.
It will help you quickly get familiar with the basics of map design with TileMill, from importing and styling your data to designing and sharing your map. This guide focuses on the core functions of TileMill and links to documentation throughout for more advanced and specific techniques in map design. Start here for an overview of TileMill. If you have any questions along the way, start a discussion with our support team. What we’ll cover Importing data We walk through how to download data and get it into TileMill. Styling data Here we show the basics of using CartoCSS to style your data and make a truly custom map. Adding tooltips and legends Making your map interactive and adding a legend is critical to communicating your data. Exporting your map Maps made in TileMill can be shared quickly and easily in a number of formats. TileMill. From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing — Readings and Resources.
Welcome to the Readings and Resources page for the University of Minnesota's massive open online course, "From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing".
The course's weekly readings and other resources are listed below. Note: No module's list of readings and resources is complete until the module begins in the course (Tuesday morning, the week of the module). General Resources Module 1: Introduction to Spatial Computing Required Readings Folger, P. 2011. Module 2: Spatial Query Languages Shekhar, S., Chawla, S. Recommended Readings Shekhar, S., Chawla, S. TileMill.