Comments for Geoffrey FairchildGeoffrey Fairchild http://www.gfairchild.com [insert witty tagline here] Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:36:19 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Introducing pyHarmonySearch! by Geoffrey Fairchild pyHarmonySearch now supports discrete variables | Geoffrey Fairchild http://www.gfairchild.com/2013/04/17/introducing-pyharmonysearch/#comment-96691 Geoffrey Fairchild pyHarmonySearch now supports discrete variables | Geoffrey Fairchild Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:36:19 +0000 http://www.gfairchild.com/?p=562#comment-96691 [...] week, I introduced pyHarmonySearch, a Python implementation of the harmony search meta-heuristic search algorithm. The original [...]

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by PK http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96684 PK Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:54:02 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96684 This is really cool. I’ve sent an email to you about the population by ZCTAs in SAS. Please reply.

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Jason http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96680 Jason Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:04:52 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96680 No problem at all – appreciate the reply. I will follow up in the Google forum.

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Geoff http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96679 Geoff Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:21:58 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96679 First of all, I’ve gotta admit that I haven’t used Google Fusion Tables, so I’m not sure how to get around your problem there. Perhaps you should ask in the official Google Fusion Tables Group (http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-fusion-tables).

The KML file does contain the full boundary file as well as interior points. Open it using Google Earth, and you’ll see the boundaries (they’re in the screenshots as well).

Sorry I can’t help more!

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Jason http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96678 Jason Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:35:15 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96678 Geoff, I am a KML novice, so forgive my naive question.

I uploaded your ZCTA KML file to Google Fusion Tables. However, I can only represent the file as points in Fusion Tables, rather than polygons.

Is this because the file only includes lat/lng points, or because I’m not properly representing the polygons in Fusion Tables?

120MB seems too small for a full boundary file of 5-digit ZCTAs, so maybe this file is just points. (Also, I thought Fusion Tables capped uploads at 100MB, so I was surprised when the 100+ MB KML file went through.)

Thanks in advance – if my question makes sense.

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Geoff http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96673 Geoff Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:10:08 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96673 I’ve actually already processed the 2010 data. Take a look at this post for more info.

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Shawn http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96672 Shawn Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96672 Geoff this is awesome. Would it be possible to get your code to convert the 2010 census data?

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Dennis http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96668 Dennis Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:35:55 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96668 I was just started on VBA code to do this same thing. You’ve saved me a lot of hard work!

]]> Comment on KML Map with ZCTA Boundaries and Population Counts from the 2000 Census by Rishav http://www.gfairchild.com/2009/02/22/kml-with-zcta-boundaries-and-population-counts-from-the-2000-census/#comment-96653 Rishav Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:03:23 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=113#comment-96653 Thanks a lot Geoff, took me quite some time to find this article but this is exactly what I was looking for, great work :)

]]> Comment on New KML Census Population Updates by Geoff http://www.gfairchild.com/2011/02/26/new-kml-population-updates/#comment-92909 Geoff Wed, 09 May 2012 22:02:57 +0000 http://www.fangsoft.net/?p=220#comment-92909 Yeah, that was a mistake I made here. It’s been fixed in the 2010 Census SQLite file that I made. That database correctly places some ZCTAs in more than 1 state (see this post for more details).

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