A Day in the Work-Life in 2020
By Jenny Fung on January 6th, 2021
2020 was awful. Who was accessible changed radically. We, and the people around us, by necessity took on different roles. Including at work.
Revisiting the Ethics of Project Selection
By Robert Cheetham on May 5th, 2020
A major part of how Azavea pursues its mission is tied to how we select our projects. As our work on Earth observation imagery has grown, we felt it was time to develop a guideline around a new industry: energy.
This Month We Learned – January 2020
By Andrew Fink-Miller, Hector Castro, James Santucci and Chris Brown on February 19th, 2020
This Month We Learned a React-ish strategy for designing UIs in IOS, new ways for thinking about stories of success and failure, and that making ReasonML and existing React libraries play nicely together can be hard.
The Impact of Becoming a B Corporation
By Robert Cheetham on February 13th, 2020
It has been 10 years since Azavea became a certified B Corporation. Here we reflect on why we sought to become a B Corporation in the first place and what effects it has had over time.
Join the OpenCities AI Challenge and Detect Building Footprints from Aerial Imagery
By Simon Kassel on January 16th, 2020
We partnered with Driven Data and the World Bank to develop the Open Cities AI Challenge. This challenge uses machine learning to extract building footprints in unmapped areas to promote disaster resilience.
5 Ways to Make Your Office Event More Inclusive
By Rathika D'Cruz on December 18th, 2019
Our workforce is more diverse than ever. Most offices are made up of folks from different cultures, remote workers, parents, colleagues with disabilities, and people with a range of dietary restrictions. This is our five-step guide to help companies consider all of these factors and plan more inclusive office events.