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Opmaps - Data And Narratives In Military History And Beyond, Sorin Matei, Robert Kirchubel
Opmaps - Data And Narratives In Military History And Beyond, Sorin Matei, Robert Kirchubel
Purdue GIS Day
Opmaps is mapping and analytics toolkit for operational military history. The toolkit employs statistical analysis to create operational datamaps, which present processes, trends, and developments in time and space. It connects quantities, such military forces, firepower, or civilians impacted, statistically with the narratives, which will be used for historical analysis and teaching. Target audiences are scholars and students. The toolkit will include a database, analytic and statistical scripts, and a visualization interface. It will also include four datasets, which can be used in scholarly research and as tutorials for future users of the toolkit. The toolkit provides military historians open-source …
Predicting U. S. Presidential Elections: From 1900 Until Today, Richard L. Hogan
Predicting U. S. Presidential Elections: From 1900 Until Today, Richard L. Hogan
Purdue GIS Day
This presentation is scheduled for the weekend before the presidential election of 2016. By then, we might all need a break from pollsters and predictions, although we still might be looking for some assurance that this will not be the end of Western Civilization as we knew it. Toward that end, a little historical perspective on presidential elections since 1900, complete with cool maps, of course, indicating partisanship by state, will illustrate several important hypotheses that the data suggest we might incorporate in our efforts to predict the future by explaining the past. Neither candidate has approved this message.