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Village Green/Town²: July 2015
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Where Columbia and Howard County Intersect. Friday, July 31, 2015. Getting Things Done with Girl Scouts in Oakland Mills. Monarch Butterfly Awareness.". At the end of the interview I asked the girls to think what the world would be like if there weren't any Girl Scouts. The answer was immediate. Nothing would get done.". After meeting with these confident, articulate young women, I'm inclined to believe they just might be right. Thank goodness we don't have to find out. Thursday, July 30, 2015. This bill...
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How politicians see Howard County | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. How politicians see Howard County. Howard County, Maryland precinct cartogram. Precinct area is proportional to the number of registered voters as of the 2014 general election. Click for higher-resolution version. Tl;dr: The map of Howard County looks very different if you’re looking for votes. Cartograms help you see like a politician. Since precincts in western Howard County are both large and heavily Republican the conventional map exaggerat...
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Dividing Howard | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. Are you a current or past resident of Howard County, Maryland? Have you ever wondered how Howard County’s current system of local government came into being? If so, my book. Is available as an ebook for the Kindle from Amazon.com. And for the Nook from Barnes and Noble. For the low price of $0.99. All royalties from the book go to Voices for Children. If you don’t have a Kindle or Nook device you can read. 4 thoughts on “ Dividing Howard. There...
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The Crescent development by the numbers | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. The Crescent development by the numbers. Rendering of proposed Crescent development in downtown Columbia. Click for high resolution version. Image 2014 Howard Hughes Corporation; used with permission. Tl;dr: The Crescent development in downtown Columbia is going to be a (very) big deal. As reported by Amanda Yeager in the. PDF], the final development plan itself. PDF], and the accompanying neighborhood concept plan. In Howard County planning te...
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Writings | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. I’ve published various posts and other writings I thought were worth highlighting, including some published before I had my present blog or published on other blogs. Some IT-related documents and posts on technical topics:. URI Rewriting and Canonical URIs. Validating and Caching Dynamic Content. Some IT-related documents and posts on less technical topics:. Setting Up Shop: The Business of Open-Source Software. Probably the most well-known of ...
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Useful datasets for Howard County election analysis | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. Useful datasets for Howard County election analysis. Tl;dr: I release two useful Howard County election datasets in preparation for future posts. In the coming days and weeks I’ll be posting some analyses of Howard County election results. Unfortunately the data released by the Howard County Board of Elections. And the Maryland State Board of Elections. Published by the Sunlight Foundation. For maximal access, data must be released in formats t...
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Fun with Howard County building permit data | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. Fun with Howard County building permit data. Tl;dr: I have fun creating graphs and maps with building permit data from data.howardcountymd.gov. About the cornucopia of interesting data sets that Howard County government has made available at the data.howardcountymd.gov. To do the analysis I used the skills and the tools I learned in the courses that are part of the Johns Hopkins data science specialization. It’s clear from the chart that ...
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Professional biography | Frank Hecker
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Trying to unite civility and truth in a few long blog posts. Frank Hecker is a sales engineer. For the Federal sales group of Infoblox, supporting the sales of Infoblox products enabling business agility through network automation. A nonprofit organization promoting choice and innovation on the Internet through its support of the Mozilla project. Home of the Firefox. Web browser) and related initiatives. Prior to joining the Mozilla Foundation Frank was a sales engineer with Opsware. On The Crescent deve...
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Moving Day | Life & How to Live It
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Life and How to Live It. As Explosive as a Dog Sneeze. April 11, 2013 · 5:40 pm. And by “we,” I mean “my blog.”. 8220;Why, Mickey? Why mess with a good thing? 8221; The main reason was the ads that popped up at the bottom of posts. They drove me batty. There’s also more freedom – design, content, functionality – when you own your own blog. I’m told. Hey, I’m still learning. Thanks, as always, for reading. I hope to see you over at the new place soon! As Explosive as a Dog Sneeze. Enter your comment here.
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