It’s been quiet here on mappable for much too long (891 days to be precise, this a data nerd blog after all). A lot of things changed since we first got started with mappable in 2013/14. Back then Mapbox and CartoDB were still brand new startups, we had all just stopped talking about google fusion tables and mapping mashups (remember that?) and putting election results on an interactive map was top notch data journalism.
A lot things changed since then. Like so many others in the field of (geospatial) data analysis and visualization, what started as a fun project in our free time grew into ordinary full-time jobs. We’re now both members of Spiegel Online’s data journalism team and Achim is leading a small data team at Hamburg/Berlin based consultancy Civity.
Unfortunately, spending all day crunching data also ment we’ve stopped write about our work here in our free time. Like a lot of other blogs, mappable.info got silent exactly the moment we’ve made most progress and probably had the most interesting work to share. Being career changers our selves and having learned so much from the open spirit in the geospatial, open source, open data & dataviz communities this is something we want to change again. We probably won’t start bigger projects here but we’ll do our best to write blog posts here every once in a while to keep you updated what we’re working on these days. Stay tuned, there’s more to come soon.
Patrick & Achim
BTW: We’ve switched our web hosts. The blog now runs on wordpress (not too happy about the move though, but we just don’t want to waste time with that any more). We’ve done our best to keep projects up an running, but there might still be some small issues and dead links.