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October 15, 2017
It all started a few minutes after 10 pm on October 1st. The gunshots sounded like firecrackers at first. People in the crowd didn't understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and Jason Aldean hustled off stage. "That's gunshots," a man said on a cellphone video in the nearly half-minute of silence and confusion that followed. Then the pop-pop-pop noise resumed. And pure terror set in.April 29, 2017
In the world of data science, we embrace the concept of spatial awareness and knowing where the data are (or datum is). In the same way that geospatial grounding (i.e. georeferenced data) brings clarity to a lost traveler, spatial context can bring clarity to a data set. Moreover, this “where” does not always have to apply to a location on the earth’s surface . Spatial context (i.e. analytic geometry), or understanding data in the context of geometric space, is just as enlightening.