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Create Your Climate Vulnerability Assessment in 7 Steps

By Jessica Cahail on April 21st, 2020

Temperate demystifies the vulnerability assessment process. Follow this step-by-step guide to create your Global Covenant of Mayors-compliant climate vulnerability assessment.

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Software Engineering

Can AI Reduce Harm to Children?: Gabriel Fernandez and the Case for Machine Learning

By Niki LaGrone on April 9th, 2020

Could AI have saved Gabriel Fernandez’s life? Data and social scientists argue that machine learning might have kept him alive. What exactly is this potentially life-saving AI? Learn more about predictive risk modeling, how governments currently use similar AI, and the ethical questions such work raises.

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Software Engineering

Labeling Satellite Imagery for Machine Learning

By Niki LaGrone on March 24th, 2020

Definitions and visuals of the most common ways to label satellite imagery for machine learning. Includes tips for managing annotations for each type.

Company

This Month We Learned – February 2020

By Alex Lash, Luke McKinstry and Tai Wilkin on March 18th, 2020

This month we learned about principled ad hoc style variation with variants, handling too-big-for-memory data with Dask, and keeping long-term projects objective in mind while designing solutions.

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Spatial Analysis

Local Redistricting is Transforming California Cities

By Luke McKinstry on February 27th, 2020

Redistricting is happening across cities in California in an effort to make representation more equitable. View our map to see where this is happening and why.