- Whether you’re doing research as part of your job or for your private life, there’s a great website www.seatguru.com that bills itself as “the ultimate source for airplane seating, in-flight amenities and airline information.” This is the place to learn about seat pitch and power ports and special amenities. Of particular interest are the seat maps of each plane in a fleet and the color-coded keys that identify the best/worst seats in the craft.
- Speaking of travel and location, there are all kinds of data types to help make sound business decisions. “Geospatial data” is explicitly geographic positioning information (i.e. road network from a GIS, or a geo-referenced satellite image.). Geospatial data can be mapped or otherwise associated with a particular place for numerous applications at global, national, provincial, regional, local or even street level. Think of crime statistics for a neighborhood or infectious disease control and you get the picture of how geospatial data can be used. To find out about The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) go to www.anygeo.com.
- Search engines. Aside from e-mail, use of search engines has to be the “killer app” that universally connects users today. But how well do you know how to search? One of the most critical parts of a successful query is specifying the logical relationship among your keywords. Boolean logic is the formal name; AND, OR, NOT along with symbols or spaces are used to denote logical relationships. There are different kinds of Boolean logic too. If you want to try an interesting test of how the different search engines perform go to www.twingine.com. Happy searching!
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