Thanks! Yeah I'd like to revisit this benchmark soon (I'm actually working on rendering choropleths on the GPU now). I'm working on a database paper that will

Thanks! Yeah I'd like to revisit this benchmark soon (I'm actually working on rendering choropleths on the GPU now). I'm working on a database paper that will hopefully be ready for VLDB submission by next month - that would probably be the best. In terms of CS background - nothing formal except for AP comp sci I took in high school like 12 years ago. However I've always loved hacking on things on the side, and a combination of my research on the Middle East/burning desire to make an Iphone app kind of got me back into it. Then to be fair I took a GPU Graphics class (basically OpenGL) at Harvard and then a Database course at MIT while doing my Masters in ME Studies, which is where this project started.