Civic Apps Archives

Using the Dedupe Machine Learning Library for Cleaning and Matching Data

By Justin Walgran on August 30th, 2019

To deal with issues of apparel facility list data quality and scale quickly and efficiently we need a machine learning tool that can capture the knowledge of domain experts, find commonalities in jumbled text, and confidently compare large lists without the need to compare each individual entry.

OAR map overlaid on top of hands sewing a garment.

Software Engineering

Connecting Data and People with the Open Apparel Registry

By Deb Boyer on August 7th, 2019

Since its launch on March 28, the Open Apparel Registry (OAR) has grown to include over 18,300 facilities in 92 countries. We’ve already heard of a few fascinating use cases where data from the OAR contributed to decision making by brands and facilities.

Parts of map highlighted overlaid on a photograph of a bee.

Software Engineering

Using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) for More Efficient Web App Architecture

By Jenny Fung on April 23rd, 2019

Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) are geoTIFFs hosted on a cloud or file server, and are optimized for remote reads. They proved useful in a recent project.