In its simplest state, this is geographical data with a timestamp, but when you plot this data onto the scenery of a map and then create a shifting window into the scene through the sequence of time, you create a data-driven story.
Today, the plot thickens with new data from Gallup.
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Google's fleet of about eight cars uses sophisticated sensors and the company's mapping data to locate the car precisely and plot a route.
For instance, in two Hindi-speaking states in northern India the government has used GIS to plot parcel data.
The characters swim in data, and their relationships to it shape the arc of the plot, and thus, the fate of the United States.
With all the data they collect, I wanted to know if they could discover and plot out the path buyers take in the early stages of the Buyers Journey.
The study, which was included in Olsen's annual report to Congress in January, used data from 2009 tax returns to plot the DIF scores for sole proprietorships across the country.
Using this data, the researchers were able to plot a series of possible orbits for the object.
"A lot of their information was based on small plot data and also estimates of what would be needed in the agronomic production of biofuels, " Dr Vogel explained.
The data comes from market-sentiment specialists Marketpsych data who plot around 2, 000 different emotional responses to business activity, daily.
By comparing sales data to advertising spending over time, Nissan can plot a demand curve showing the points at which a campaign starts to gain and lose steam.
He knows this because he has actual data on sales (available from Amazon) and the sales rank, and he knows how to plot a regression line in Excel.
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