Posted by Shady
Mon, 05 May 2008 05:30:00 GMT
So, another school project of mine ends up on the web: WorldBuy. It started life as my final project for CSE486 (Distributed Systems) but I liked it so much I decided to put it online.
Basically, you can click on a region and it will give you some general information about where you clicked. You can then search amazon for products related to that area. Products can be saved per region, and ranked so that a user can see what other people think are good products for a given place.
It's very, very, very beta at the moment. No user accounts, no per user places or products, and the search itself isn't particularly refined, but I think there is a lot of potential here.
It is also serving as a testbed for the new features I added to the geonames rubygem I wrote about in a previous blog post. The site makes use of both the paid account support, and the country info method. I made a custom rubygem with the new geonames features, and this site currently uses that.
I have a bunch of plans for features to add to this site, and I intend to keep working on this site. If you use it and like it, or don't like it, let me know!
Posted in School, GIS, Mapping, Cartography, Development, Ruby | Tags amazon, geography, schoolproejct | 1 comment | no trackbacks
Posted by Shady
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:39:00 GMT
For a final project in one of my classes, I made some maps of New York State language usage and foreign born population (the only measure of 'immigration' that the census bureau keeps track of).
The maps and a discussion about how they were made can be found here
Share and enjoy, if you have any comments leave them attached to this blog post.
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Posted by Shady
Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:24:00 GMT
Just a quick post detailing the recent week. Yes, it's that time of year again, the wonderful time when school starts up the, frat parties get rolling, and students the world over bitch about the price of books. University is back in session.
I'll probably post a little more in depth observations later, but for right now, a brief run down of my courses:
- Urban Systems Geography
An interesting course in which the dynamics and development of urban areas are studied. I took this class because the professor is excellent (had him last semester), but the subject matter is also of interest to me despite the fact that it's not what I forsee my self focusing on as far as my major is concerned
- Fundamentals of GIS
This is a core course for me. It's a little tough to specialize in GIS/Cartography wihtout taking this course. The professor seems like a sharp one, and she is quite funny as well, so I think this course is going to go very well. I'm very interested in the material as well. This course is a huge stepping stone to a number of other very useful courses like Algorithms and Data Structures of GIS.
- Discrete Math
I'm looking forward to this course, despite my self proclaimed status as math retard. The propsitional logic and set theory we will discuss is actually the type of math I am very interested in, and I once again I lucked out and got a professor that I actually like. It'll be a lot of work but I'm looking forward to it.
- Methods of Inquiry
So yeah . . . I'll admit it, this is a fluff class. Totally. 2 days a week, 5o minutes a day, and the class itself is about "learning" how to take notes and do research and think critically. I figure it will be an easy A. I was originally scheduled for Integrated Environmental Management, but it was a 3 hour class one day a week, and I've had a bad experience with those in the past.
So that's it. My semester is set and ready to go. Courses look great, professors look great, and I'm well on my way to actually *gasp* completing my degree.
About friggin' time.
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