Data-Driven Decision-Making: Predicting Building Inspection Outcomes
By Simon Kassel on September 21st, 2017
In a recent interview with Harvard’s Data-Smart City Solutions, Tom Schenk Jr. (the City of Chicago’s Chief Data Officer) reflected...
Introducing GeoPySpark, a Python Binding of GeoTrellis
By Jacob Bouffard on September 19th, 2017
GeoTrellis is a Scala library for working with geospatial data in a distributed environment. While powerful, it has a limited...
Investigating Refinery Flaring Pollution and Air Pollutant Concentration
By Sarah Gates on September 18th, 2017
This post is part of a series of articles written by 2017 Summer of Maps Fellows. Azavea’s Summer of Maps...
Interpolating Lead Levels from Tap Water Samples Following the Flint Water Crisis
By Julia Heslin on September 15th, 2017
This post is part of a series of articles written by 2017 Summer of Maps Fellows. Azavea’s Summer of Maps...
Video: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Analyze Aerial and Satellite Imagery
By Lewis Fishgold on September 6th, 2017
In this recording of our most recent Technical Staff Meeting, we walk through our team’s work on Raster Vision, a...
Simple Features: Building Spatial Data Pipelines in R
By Simon Kassel on August 30th, 2017
For several years, developers and GIS enthusiasts have been working to expand R’s spatial analysis and mapping capabilities. Packages like...