michaelcolenso

In 1977, 1,117 American girls were named Kizzy.

The year before, the name did not appear in the national baby-name data at all.

Then Roots aired.

Kizzy was the daughter played by Leslie Uggams in Roots, one of the largest television events in American history. (Levar also made a strong debut that year).

The (mighty) Mackinac Bridge in Michigan has had similar problems recently. It's a suspension, not a cable-stayed bridge, fwiw.

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/mackinac_bridge_...

This is great. Thanks Mike.

Made with Leaflet, and data sourced from King County GIS.

Github repo here: https://github.com/michaelcolenso/seattlejoy

I think that's a great point, and I agree that it's not the ideal metric for illuminating the issue. However, I'd argue that, to a limited degree, even the "harmless equipment" acquired by Law Enforcement agencies from the Department of Defense serve to "Militarize" the police forces in a way that reinforces conflict rather than cooperation.

If you let the cops dress up like soldiers, train like soldiers, and equip them like soldiers to the extent that we currently do in the US, eventually they start to believe they are in a war.

But yes, I do agree that the ratio of seemingly mundane items to the big ticket MRAP's and APC's is skewed toward stuff you can get at REI or OfficeMax, which sort of muffles the message. There's interestingness and insight buried in this 1033 program data, I believe. This probably isn't quite it, yet.

Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it.

Thanks! The source is on GitHub if you want to have a go at anything in there... https://github.com/michaelcolenso/1033-Program-Map

Thanks! Considering I probably couldn't even spell choropleth a month or 2 ago, I'm pretty grateful for Mike Bostock and his proclivity for documentation (for D3 and mapping concepts in general) by creating working examples. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock is my favorite thing on the internets.

I mostly built it as an exercise in curiosity, but I'm certainly open to letting the universe decide what's next...

The data was sourced by using ogr2ogr to grab the data from an arcGIS server that the city runs and convert it to geojson. There was also an associated Sales db that I was able to query all results for, so I grabbed those and stuck them in MongoDB for the purpose of linking the parcel data with the property number in the db. When a user clicks on a property, I search mongo for the associated records and update the html via socket.io.

I showed this last week, but the app crashed and burned after about an hour. I'm pretty sure I figured out the issue(s) and fixed them, but I'll be interested to find out if that's really the case.

We love the Dairy Lodge! The other iconic ice cream place in town is Bardon's Wonder Freeze, and they have Sputnik on their roof.

http://i.imgur.com/XdF5QdE.jpg

So that's awesome, too.

I fixed the attribution. It was being covered up by the footer. Thanks for checking it out.

http://iswordfight.com/

Thanks! I appreciate the heads up on the attribution...I knew that, and I actually included it in the code where I add the leaflet tile layer, but I guess I need to include a leaflet control to display the attribution. Here's the code I'm using:

https://gist.github.com/michaelcolenso/e89bc327cb31e7f0b6d9

Thanks! I appreciate the positive vibes. My favorite trick I learned was how to use the GDAL tools (ogr2ogr) plus Topojson to fetch the data (the geometry plus the sales db exposed on the arcGis REST endpoint) and convert it to geoJSON in order to deal with it via D3. Pretty rewarding to finally get something to project properly after spending roughly eleventeen hours trial and erroring on the command line with those (very powerful) tools...

It was super fun to make. Thanks for checking it out.

I know, right? "Sexy Taxes" isn't really a thing.

So I believe I fixed it. I think it was b/c the socket.io server was emitting on the 'io' object on every db query, and it should have been emitting on the 'socket'. I think. It was definitely all jacked up, though. Thanks so much for checking it out...

Jeezers. I'll take a look at that, I guess. Thanks for the feedback!

Yep. It's way basic, and not terribly useful other than as a novelty site. But it was fun to make. So that's good.