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How a Small Tech Company Has Adjusted to the Hybrid Work Environment: Insights from 2021

By Alana Hill, Jillian Long and Zoë Cohen on January 10th, 2022

2021 brought a lot of challenges to tech companies and many have concerns leading into 2022. Considering how much we learned from 2021, as the year came to a close we gathered learnings from our colleagues to help us work effectively in 2022. We wanted to share some of these tips and plans for this upcoming year as a way to support our friends in the tech-for-good community.

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Improving City Transit Networks through Data and Public Policy

By Zoë Cohen on July 21st, 2021

Using open source data and easily customizable software, Azavea worked with PeopleForBikes to improve city transit networks.

1976 Synthetic Aperture Radar image of Willow Run Airport and vicinity, representing 15-foot (5 meter) resolution.

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Labeling SAR Imagery for Machine Learning: A Beginners Guide

By Niki LaGrone on April 27th, 2021

SAR imagery is having a moment. In this blog we explore what exactly it is, why it is so special, and tips for labeling it.

Screenshot of GroundWork application Campaign feature.

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GroundWork Launches Campaigns

By Niki LaGrone on March 31st, 2021

Need to create a training dataset that contains multiple images? GroundWork launches "Campaigns" to help you handle large datasets for machine learning.

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This Month We Learned — February 2021

By Casey Cesari and James Santucci on March 25th, 2021

In February, we learned more about PostgreSQL indexing. Casey Cesari learned about speeding up fuzzy match searches with tri-gram indexes, and James Santucci learned how much he didn't know about jsonb indexes.