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runBENrun Part 3 – Starting with PostgreSQL and Running Analysis
Red – more runs – Blue – less runs Run Ben, Run! Data Analysis! Finally! I am at a point with my Nike+ app data transformation process from the raw TCX files to data I can work with. It is now time to...
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runBenrun – These aren’t Heat Maps
I’ve gone back into my running data from 2014 and 2015 to build some density maps to compare to what I have run so far in 2016. Building a 10m grid for the region, I did some simple aggregations based...
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GISDoctor.com 2016 Year in Review!
It’s 2017, so let’s talk about 2016. Back in January of 2016 I wrote a blog post about my goals for the up coming year. I had a few goals I wanted to accomplish during the past 12 months....
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The Best Way to Map a Run
From my runBENrun project I have generated a lot of data; over 1.2 million data points in 2.75 years. It is easy enough to write SQL scripts to analyze the data and gain insight into the runs,...
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Racing Myself – Using Torque in CARTO with runBENrun
As most runners do, I run a lot of the same routes over, and over again. During a run yesterday, I had the idea that I could pull all my runs on my three mile loop and race them against each other...
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Starting the 2017 Hubway Data Challenge
Time for a New Project A couple weeks ago, Hubway, Boston’s bike share service, announced their 2017 Data Challenge. For the challenge, Hubway is providing trip data for previous years, station data,...
View ArticleThis is Probably the Last GISDoctor.com Post
Hello people who find this blog through googling something about GIS, click on my interesting tweets, or being sent here through the geo-reddit, or stackoverflows. I have some news. I think this will...
View ArticleThis is the First Post to BenjaminSpaulding.com
I think I have most of the old posts from gisdoctor.com moved over. I need to do some more testing and customizing, but I think the site is almost ready to go!
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Things to do in Boston during FOSS4G 2017
FOSS4G Boston 2017 is less than a month away! You should go. Why? Well, because I probably won’t be able to make all of it (insert sad face emoji here) I have a great reason – my second child will be...
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My Last Day at AIR Worldwide
Today is my last day with AIR Worldwide, a global natural catastrophe modeling firm, based in Boston. I have been with AIR since June 20, 2010, working in the Research and Modeling group as the lead...
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