Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Map of Complaints Against Philadelphia Police from 2013 to 2017

By Dan Ford on January 19th, 2018

This high level analysis joins newly released open data with Police Districts to create a map of Complaints Against Philadelphia Police from 2013 to 2017.

Software Engineering

Repeatable Data Processing Workflows with Docker and Make

By Casey Cesari on January 10th, 2018

View the code and methods for how we used Docker and Make to create data processing workflows that match the rigor of our software development workflows.

Software Engineering

Predicting Land Use in the Amazon using Deep Learning

By Lewis Fishgold and Annie Zhao on January 3rd, 2018

Learn about our methods and results leveraging our RasterVision deep learning project to predict land use in satellite images of the Amazon.

Software Engineering

Weighing Scalaz vs Cats Scala Libraries for GeoTrellis

By Colin Woodbury on December 27th, 2017

After a thorough research period that compared the Scalaz and Cats libraries in depth, GeoTrellis has decided to use the Cats library. Find out why...