By Sean Bonner | Director of Global Operations
We're pretty excited to have broken the 3 million data point marker recently. Starting at 0 just over a year ago, and only breaking a million in December - this is very exciting for us. We've recently finished up some agreements which, if all goes well, could put us on track to add a million new points ever month by the end of the year. This data is already being used by universities, doctors, communities and researchers all over the world.
We're actively working on base-lining the planet now. If we had the kind of data that we now have from prior to March of 2011 we'd know a lot more about what actually happened - as it stands we have to speculate a bit. Once we get things mapped all over, the next time something happens we'll be able to reference this data set and set the changes exactly as they happen which will be fantastic. We're hoping to cover some significant locations before the end of the year as well.
To see all this we'll be launching a whole new visualization platform any day now that will let you look at our data over time as well as compare it against other data sets (like earthquakes, reactor locations, census info, etc) which will tell an more robust story we hope.
Thanks for the continuing support!!
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