Spatial Analysis Archives - Azavea - Beyond Dots on a Map

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MUB Monitor: Helping Water Utilities Track and Respond to Upstream Threats

By Fernando Ramirez on June 3rd, 2019

In partnership with Downstream Strategies, we created MUB Monitor - a comprehensive GIS-based tool that helps water professionals track spills, assess watershed threats, and make informed decisions.

Crop of an interactive map showing census blocks in West Virginia with the life expectancy of one highlighted.

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Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Life Expectancy with Python

By Simon Kassel on May 2nd, 2019

All around the country boundaries separate neighborhoods with high and low life expectancy. We used python to find the most extreme examples.

Districts of Philadelphia overlaid on top of a photo of a child swinging with the sky and playground in the background.

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Scoring Philadelphia’s City Council Districts for Children’s Health and Well-being

By Daniel McGlone on April 16th, 2019

Scoring Philadelphia City Council districts on assets and risks using a weighted spatial analysis model in R and Python.

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Enhancing GIS Capacity with OpenStreetMap

By Esther Needham on February 27th, 2019

We're working with the Inter-American Development Bank to improve the GIS capacity of Guyana with tools built to extract OpenStreetMap data.

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Using ArcMap, R, and Adobe Illustrator to Create Data Driven Infographics

By Dan Ford on October 16th, 2018

Learn to create a series of data-driven infographics in the context of a project that evaluates bus performance in each Philadelphia City Council District.

Close-up of Analysis of eviction orders in New Orleans

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How Evictions Correspond to Past Divestment in New Orleans

By Gabrielle Beaudry on October 15th, 2018

We worked with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative as part of the 2018 Summer of Maps program to analyze evictions data in New Orleans.