Data-Driven Decision-Making: Predicting Building Inspection Outcomes
By Simon Kassel on September 21st, 2017
In a recent interview with Harvard’s Data-Smart City Solutions, Tom Schenk Jr. (the City of Chicago’s Chief Data Officer) reflected...
Introducing GeoPySpark, a Python Binding of GeoTrellis
By Jacob Bouffard on September 19th, 2017
GeoTrellis is a Scala library for working with geospatial data in a distributed environment. While powerful, it has a limited...
Interpolating Lead Levels from Tap Water Samples Following the Flint Water Crisis
By Julia Heslin on September 15th, 2017
This post is part of a series of articles written by 2017 Summer of Maps Fellows. Azavea’s Summer of Maps...
Simple Features: Building Spatial Data Pipelines in R
By Simon Kassel on August 30th, 2017
For several years, developers and GIS enthusiasts have been working to expand R’s spatial analysis and mapping capabilities. Packages like...
Emerging Hot Spot Analysis: Finding Patterns over Space and Time
By Sarah Gates on August 15th, 2017
This post is part of a series of articles written by 2017 Summer of Maps Fellows. Azavea’s Summer of Maps...
Sankey Diagrams: Six Tools for Visualizing Flow Data
By Julia Heslin on August 9th, 2017
This post is part of a series of articles written by 2017 Summer of Maps Fellows. Azavea’s Summer of Maps...