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Welcome to the website for Dixon Spatial Consulting – the corporate structure for working with Dennis C. Dixon, Geo-Information Specialist

(latest update 3/31/2012)

 

I invite you to view my blog

http://gisdixon.blogspot.com/

dealing with things GIS,including Computer Cartography, Thematic Cartography, Census Data, and other areas of interest.

latest postings:

3/31/2012      Flying through Essex County beaches

3/28/2012      Springsteen Tour 2012

3/20/2012      Business Intelligence 103

3/14/2012      Business Intelligence 102

3/13/2012      Business Intelligence 101

3/1/2012        Locations on Google Maps, Part 2

2/29/2012      Locations on Google Maps, Part 1

2/17/2012      Telephone Area Codes

12/16/2011    Using Orthophotos

12/15/2011    Solutions – not Problems – With Projections

12/9/2011      Traffic Cams, part 2

12/8/2011      Traffic Cams, part 1 (too much NCIS?)

11/18/2011    Are Maps Dangerous?

11/20/2011    Tornadoes!

11/18/2011    Are Maps Dangerous?

11/8/2011      new Congressional District maps

11/5/2011      The Display of Imformation – Print and Online

10/4/2011      Sinkholes in Florida

10/1/2011      Red Sox September Swoon

8/5/2011        FFIEC releases 2011 Geocoder

6/22/2011      Maps Communicate Actionable Information

6/19/2011      Maps for the 2010 Census, Part 2

5/30/2011      Maps for the 2010 Census, Part 1

5/23/2011      Mapping the beaches of Essex County

5/2/2011        American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau)

4/2/2011        Visions of The Future

3/24/2011      2010 Census Tracts in Google Earth

2/25/2011      Charts: Looking at the Data

2/25/2011      Inactivity & Diabetes maps from the CDC

2/16/2011      Using Pie Charts to represent Bank Activity

2/1/2011        new TIGER files for the 2010 Census, part 2

1/17/2011      Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech

1/10/2011      No new MSAs for 2011

1/2/2011        Motion Charts!!

12/27/2010    new TIGER files, 2010 Census, part 1

12/20/2010    New Releases from the U.S. Census Bureau

12/13/2010    Income as a % of MSA Median

12/6/2010      Moving Census Tract Centroids

11/29/2010    Why Create/Install New Mapping Data Files?

11/22/2010    GeoDemographic Analysis

11/15/2010    First Thoughts

 

Forsyth County, GA new Census Tracts                     changes in Median Family Income 1999-2009

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Bank Compliance is the section dealing with Computer Cartography, specifically as how it is used in Bank Compliance (how Banks use Maps for compliance with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act).

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Visualization is the section dealing with my efforts in dealing with large, multi-dimensional data sets: Motion Charts, PanZoom using Flex 3, Zoomify, Animation Maps (spatial data over time), Fusion Maps.

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Research & Development Is the section dealing with a number of Flex 3 projects, including Cascading Menus, Iris-and-Zoom, 3d chart for Housing Prices, slideshow, and FisheyeViewer.

 

Book Review I have written for

charting the unknown: how computer mapping at harvard became gis

http://acsmcongress.org/bulletinonline/bull225/chartingtheunknown_breview.pdf

 

Dixon Resume link

 

If you have any requests, please  email:

dennis.dixon@dixonspatialconsulting.com

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