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Most days I like meetings

Stephen Oster

I like meetings because I think that’s where the decisions are born (not always made). Meetings, good meetings, are spaces to consider inputs, process them collectively and provide outputs. The work is done outside of meetings. I get it. Many can’t stand meetings. They seem to be pointless or a...

Avoiding making to chase rabbits.

Stephen Oster

I was going through my drafts of posts this morning and came across the following entry. Thought I'd just post as is. My goal tonight was to create. I was determined to put pen to paper or fingers to keys—anything. I consume content constantly. I seek it out like candy, following rabbit holes....

Full text search for maps

andrewxhill

This post is going to be short. Basically, CartoDB runs on the coolest database in the world, PostgreSQL. Because it runs on such an amazing open source technolgy, we often get to tap into amazing advances and amazing documentation of methods that come from the community. One really nice write-up...

More on the Torque unknown

andrewxhill

Classifying Torque maps is a neuron-twister. They are essentially rasters, but they regenerate based on zoom and respond to headers defined on the fly by the users. They resemble vector points when you finally see them. I dunno, they are kinda Point-based Vector Tiles with built in simplification…...