Resources
Charts and visualization
May 20th, 2010. Tags: charts, overview, visualization. Posted in ResourcesAvailable at: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128
An introduction to various charts and visualization techniques. Examples are provided.
Collection of Internet maps
May 18th, 2010. Tags: internet, internet backbone, maps. Posted in ResourcesClick image for larger view. Click link to visit site.
World Internet Maps
U.S. Internet Backbone Maps
From Internet2 (a networking consortium led by the research and education community)
Source: UCAR (1999). Networking in the post-Internet world: UCAR’s plan.
More resources
For internet backbone maps of different ISPs, see also ISP-Planet’s Backbone Directory: An ISP Guide to National & Global Providers. The site provides company info and backbone maps of more than 30 ISPs.
Download U.S. Census statistics and shapefiles
May 14th, 2010. Tags: ArcGIS, Census, demographics, download, shapefiles, statistics. Posted in ResourcesClick image for larger view. Click link to visit site.
Spatial data – shapefiles (.shp)
From U.S. Census Bureau.
From U.S. Census Bureau. Via ESRI.
Census data
- Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data
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Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) Sample Data
Income data are available in SF3.
Report: 2009 Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States
November 7th, 2009. Tags: internet, maps, states, statistics. Posted in ResourcesCommunications Workers of America. (2008). Speed Matters: 2009 Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States
The results of this third annual speedmatters.org survey of Internet speeds show that the U.S. has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet. … The 2009 speedmatters.org survey finds that the average download speed for the nation was 5.1 megabits per second (mbps) and the average upload speed was 1.1 mbps.
(Communications Workers of America, 2009, p. 1)
F/OSS
July 27th, 2009. Tags: F/OSS, programs. Posted in Resources-
Data analysis & visualization
- The R Project for Statistical Computing (statistics)
- Pajek (network analysis)
- CiteSpace (bibliometrics/scientometrics)
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Editor
- Notepad++ (Source code editor – and notepad replacement)
- Amaya (WYSIWYG HTML/web authoring)
- Tinn-R (R code editor)
- XML copy editor (XML editor/validator)
- Inkscape (vector graphics editor)
- GIMP (raster graphics editor)
- Audacity (audio editor and recorder)
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Virtualization
- Virtual box
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Digital library system
- Greenstone Digital Library Software
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Remote access/desktop sharing
- TeamViewer
