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Open Civic Data Standards: Book of Adopted and Proposed Standards

By Dan Ford on March 27th, 2018

The Open Civic Data Standards ebook outlines the status of open data standards in several civic domains and lists domains where there is strong potential for developing or defining new open data standards.

Spatial Analysis

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

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.

Spatial Analysis

Climate Change Projections for Excessive Heat Days at Arizona Airports

By Ross Bernet on November 29th, 2017

We used GeoPySpark, Python binding for GeoTrellis, to analyze climate change data and determine Arizona airports at risk for excessive heat days.

Company

#HOTLunch: Volunteer Your Lunch Break to Support Disaster Relief Efforts

By Dan Ford on October 2nd, 2017

Volunteer your lunch break for #HOTLunch to map features that NGOs use to plan aid efforts in response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

Fig. 1 - Density of building inspection failures

Spatial Analysis

Predicting Building Code Compliance with Machine Learning Models

By Simon Kassel on September 21st, 2017

Which buildings should inspectors prioritize? We used machine learning models to predict building code compliance and address resource allocation questions.