Tips.gg: Your Ultimate Source for Sports Analytics, Matches, Tournaments, and Predictions

Feb 282023
 

Welcome to Tips.gg, your go-to website for all things sports analytics! Whether you're a die-hard fan, a bettor looking for an edge, or just someone curious about the numbers behind the game, we've got you covered. Our team of expert analysts and data scientists work tirelessly to provide you with the most accurate and insightful information.

Deploying TileStream to the Heroku Cloud

Jan 182014
 

TileStream is an open source tile server devel­oped by Map­Box, which bor­rows exten­sively from their com­mer­cial Map­Box tile server prod­uct. TileStream loads map layer pack­ages cre­ated in the TileMill appli­ca­tion, which are stored on the server as SQLite data­bases in the mbtiles specification/schema. On the other hand, Heroku is a cloud appli­ca­tion plat­form that sup­ports Python, Ruby, Java and Node.js apps, the lat­ter of which TileStream is depen­dent upon. This post will show how to deploy a TileStream server on the Heroku cloud appli­ca­tion plat­form, thereby allow­ing you to serve your map tiles using scal­able infra­struc­ture that can respond to fluc­tu­a­tions in the demand of your web maps. See the result here.

Con­tinue reading »

Using R for Water Quality Trend Analysis

Nov 232013
 

Life as a grad stu­dent, as many of you already know, is a con­stant bat­tle with com­plet­ing assign­ments on time, keep­ing up the grades for future fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and get­ting enough sleep. My first semes­ter in the Mas­ter of Spa­tial Analy­sis pro­gram is near­ing its end in what seems like the short­est semes­ter of school I’ve ever taken. Dur­ing this time I have had the plea­sure to strengthen some of my skills in the R lan­guage for sta­tis­ti­cal com­put­ing for the pur­pose of water qual­ity trend analy­sis (SA8904 — GIS Project Man­age­ment). This post will show how I have used R for water qual­ity trend analy­sis, using pub­li­caly avail­able data from the USGS (due to a NDA that pro­hibits me to share my school work).

Con­tinue reading »

For Sale: Limited Edition Global Flights

Nov 012013
 

Hi every­one!

For the past 6 months I have been work­ing hard to get you a lim­ited edi­tion print of the global flights. I am very excited to release this print in a run of 50, signed and numbered.

Find out more details and buy yours today: http://shop.www.spatialanalysis.ca

Hold tight everyone!

May 302013
 

Sta­tis­ti­cally speak­ing, the Global Flight Paths images are my most rec­og­nized and shared pieces of work and even more so since they went viral and media crazy over the past week. The BBC News reported over 1 mil­lion UK-based vis­i­tors had read the story on their web­site and over 15,000 social shares were recorded. The BBC News also tweeted this story to over 1.5 mil­lion twit­ter fol­low­ers, which in turn retweeted the link to their many mil­lions of fol­low­ers. If any­one has a way to aggre­gate and quan­tify these tweet+retweet sta­tis­tics I would be more than happy to explore.

I am cur­rently wait­ing on licens­ing and prints infor­ma­tion from the pow­ers above me so please, if you are inter­ested in using the images or want­ing prints, kindly send me an email stat­ing so! Thank you and I will try my best to get back to every­one as quick as possible.

Some other inter­est­ing stats:

Mapping the Afghan War Diary

Jan 242013
 

The Afghan War Diary, made avail­able by the Wik­ileaks group, is the dis­clo­sure of inter­nal US Mil­i­tary logs. Wik­ileaks has been known to release data that con­tains lat­i­tu­di­nal and lon­gi­tu­di­nal infor­ma­tion use­ful for spa­tial analy­sis. I’ve taken the lib­erty to map the some-76,000 mil­i­tary logs.

The mil­i­tary logs are a col­lec­tion of top secret clas­si­fied cor­re­spon­dences that detail var­i­ous mil­i­tary encoun­ters and sit­u­a­tional reports. Some of the most pop­u­lar head­ings in the log are: ene­mies killed/wounded in action, friend­lies killed/wounded in action and report­ing unit (squad/other).

Con­tinue reading »

An ESRI mapbook submission that never was

Nov 202012
 

It has been a while since I posted on this web­site; but you may have noticed that I have been fairly busy else­where, such as on LinkedIn or Twit­ter.

This post will stand as a reminder to myself that we can’t always fore­see the bumps along the road. I am speak­ing about the ESRI map­book sub­mis­sion that was due on Novem­ber 16, which I missed because of undue dif­fi­cul­ties in obtain­ing and manip­u­lat­ing triv­ial data. Why do I say triv­ial? Given the way my sub­mis­sion looks at the moment, I would say it is accept­able, if not near per­fect for the map­book cat­e­gories of trans­porta­tion and cartography.

Con­tinue reading »

Public Transit Service Density: The Case of the TTC

Apr 272012
 

As the City of Toronto inches closer and closer towards the green light for new Metrolinx projects like the LRT lines for Shep­pard East and Eglin­ton Crosstown, GIS will play an ever cru­cial role in assist­ing deci­sion mak­ers by fram­ing City-wide issues into a per­spec­tive that can be quickly com­pre­hended. Map­ping ser­vice den­sity aims to iden­tify tran­sit deserts in the over­all tran­sit net­work. These maps empha­size the dif­fer­ence in the lev­els of ser­vice (num­ber of trips) by using darker/stronger colours and thicker lines for higher than aver­age trips, and vice-versa for routes that dis­play below the aver­age num­ber of trips.

Con­tinue reading »

Census-Driven Maps is live!

Apr 262012
 

Let’s face it, GIS is a term loosely (if even that) under­stood by the pub­lic. With­out a uni­ver­sity degree in Geog­ra­phy or cer­tifi­cate in GIS, web-mapping enables users to explore geospa­tial data, pat­terns and phe­nom­e­non quite effec­tively. As an exploratory tool, web-mapping bridges the gap between the ana­lyt­i­cal engine that is the GIS soft­ware, and the basic sta­tic map.

Con­tinue reading »

Toronto OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend

Mar 212012
 

The Open­StreetMap project has over half a mil­lion map con­trib­u­tors and a fairly exten­sive devel­oper com­mu­nity. This past week­end, the first-ever Open­StreetMap hack week­end was held in Toronto, Canada (second-ever North Amer­i­can hack) at Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity. This event was jointly hosted with the Depart­ment of Geog­ra­phy, Mas­ter of Spa­tial Analy­sis and the Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion of Geo­graphic Analy­sis. Event coör­di­na­tion was taken care of by Richard Weait, long-time advo­cate of OpenStreetMap.

Con­tinue reading »

Alternatives to Google Maps

Mar 102012
 

Late last year, Google announced that their Maps API and Google Maps Imagery would become a charged ser­vice for high vol­ume users. Any­one host­ing more than 25,000 daily map views would incur charges accord­ing to this pric­ing scheme. It is impor­tant to note that, not only is the API restricted, but the imagery (google maps lay­ers) is restricted in the same fash­ion. For those that use any other API but still call upon Google base lay­ers, the restric­tion of 25,000 daily map views still holds true. Now, this web­site cer­tainly won’t gen­er­ate that kind of traf­fic any­time in the near future, but there cer­tainly are those kinds of web­sites on the inter­net that have well over a mil­lion page views a day. Those that first come to mind are travel ser­vice providers and real-estate agen­cies. Both ser­vices use maps as spa­tial deci­sion sup­port tools (eg. where should I live? where should we visit?). I am tak­ing this oppor­tu­nity to round up the APIs that I am famil­iar with and would rec­om­mend to those mak­ing the move away from Google.

Con­tinue reading »

 Older Entries