Visualizing the Flood Crisis in Queensland with Real-Time Citizen Reports

This is the second compelling visualization we have seen of a natural disaster this week. Before this week, we reported an email interview we did with journalist Peter Aldhous who created a data visualization in R that shows how Haiti's relatively low seismic earthquake had as many fatalities as all now one earthquake in the past four decades. R is a software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

The platform has its own iPhone app

ABC goes on to explain that the platform has its own iPhone app, which can be used to report incidents and see the crowdsourced map.

Advances in Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapters and VMware vSphere 4 allow migration away from legacy Gigabit Ethernet networking.

This white paper provides network architects and decision makers with guidance for moving from GbE to 10GbE networking in their virtualized data centers.