The year before, the name did not appear in the national baby-name data at all.
Then Roots aired.
Kizzy was the daughter played by Leslie Uggams in Roots, one of the largest television events in American history. (Levar also made a strong debut that year).
I think that's a great point, and I agree that it's not the ideal metric for illuminating the issue. However, I'd argue that, to a limited degree, even the "harmless equipment" acquired by Law Enforcement agencies from the Department of Defense serve to "Militarize" the police forces in a way that reinforces conflict rather than cooperation.
If you let the cops dress up like soldiers, train like soldiers, and equip them like soldiers to the extent that we currently do in the US, eventually they start to believe they are in a war.
But yes, I do agree that the ratio of seemingly mundane items to the big ticket MRAP's and APC's is skewed toward stuff you can get at REI or OfficeMax, which sort of muffles the message. There's interestingness and insight buried in this 1033 program data, I believe. This probably isn't quite it, yet.
Thanks! Considering I probably couldn't even spell choropleth a month or 2 ago, I'm pretty grateful for Mike Bostock and his proclivity for documentation (for D3 and mapping concepts in general) by creating working examples. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock is my favorite thing on the internets.
The data was sourced by using ogr2ogr to grab the data from an arcGIS server that the city runs and convert it to geojson. There was also an associated Sales db that I was able to query all results for, so I grabbed those and stuck them in MongoDB for the purpose of linking the parcel data with the property number in the db. When a user clicks on a property, I search mongo for the associated records and update the html via socket.io.
I showed this last week, but the app crashed and burned after about an hour. I'm pretty sure I figured out the issue(s) and fixed them, but I'll be interested to find out if that's really the case.
Thanks! I appreciate the heads up on the attribution...I knew that, and I actually included it in the code where I add the leaflet tile layer, but I guess I need to include a leaflet control to display the attribution. Here's the code I'm using:
Thanks! I appreciate the positive vibes. My favorite trick I learned was how to use the GDAL tools (ogr2ogr) plus Topojson to fetch the data (the geometry plus the sales db exposed on the arcGis REST endpoint) and convert it to geoJSON in order to deal with it via D3. Pretty rewarding to finally get something to project properly after spending roughly eleventeen hours trial and erroring on the command line with those (very powerful) tools...
It was super fun to make. Thanks for checking it out.
So I believe I fixed it. I think it was b/c the socket.io server was emitting on the 'io' object on every db query, and it should have been emitting on the 'socket'. I think. It was definitely all jacked up, though. Thanks so much for checking it out...
Agreed. It's way less functional than the ArcGIS server that's maintained by the municipality. It was a weekend project to play with d3, mostly. There's lots wrong with the site as it is, but it's a journey, right? Thanks for the feedback.
