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Introducing the Open Apparel Registry
We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Apparel Registry, an open source global map of garment producing facilities.
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Introducing the Open Apparel Registry
We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Apparel Registry, an open source global map of garment producing facilities.
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Data Wrangling from Space
โThe world is one big data problem.โ Andrew McAfee Small satellites are becoming cheaper to launch and operate, and their data is changing how we view the earth. As more commodity satellites enter orbit and begin sending data, the need for smart applications to ingest, archive, process, transform, and distribute that data become more important.…
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The Power of Types in Idris
Idris is a pure, statically-typed functional language with a powerful type system. Let’s explore writing code in Idris using type-driven development and interactive editing.
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Lessons on tree-shaking Lodash with Webpack and Babel
Tree-shaking lodash can reduce the size of your JavaScript bundle, but it requires that a few conditions are met along the way to implementing it.
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An E84 Coffee Labs Story: A Kitchen at Work that Feels More Like Home
As a part of our new series โE84 Coffee Labsโ, weโre exploring Element 84 coffee culture with different members of the team. Coffee is an important aspect of life at Element 84. Everyone has their own unique way of making and enjoying it. The warm and inviting office space at Element 84 immediately drew me…
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Fast, Secure, Reliable Uploads to Amazon Web Services from a Web Browser
The Problem Recently, I needed to implement large file uploads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from a web browser. We had some requirements with possible solutions: S3 is the ideal place to upload files but there are issues with uploading from a web browser to S3. You don’t want to give users free reign to…
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Introducing TileJSON.io, A Fast and Easy Way to View and Share Raster Tiles
TileJSON.io is an open source project by Azavea. It is an easy way to view and share raster tile sets using slippy map endpoints.
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Enhancing GIS Capacity with OpenStreetMap
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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Coffee as Culture
Element 84 isn’t unique because most of us like coffee. Embracing everyone’s unique ways of making and enjoying it is what makes it part of our culture. Starting from a simple bean We all have our different ways of making it. Some like to use a pod in a machine, while others like that machine…
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Mapping Africa: Crowdsourced Machine Learning
We leveraged our ability to process raster imagery, our open sources libraries, and our knack for machine learning to map agricultural fields in Africa.
