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Oakland Crimespotting Visualization

Company: Stamen

Comments: Stamen works with big, detailed data sets. They take data sets, just excel documents with hundreds of pages of numbers, and run it through a custom Python setup, to create dynamic XML data that they can use to create graphical values. For example, they took all the information for the crimes committed in Oakland on any given day (taken with cooperation from the Oakland police) and create their own maps (completely open source, unlike Google Maps, yahoo, or MSN) and plugged some graphical data in to create Crimespotting, a fully interactive map used to see all types of crimes, where they occurred and at what time.

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