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Philadelphia Plans to Prioritize Data Nominated by Nonprofits During OpenDataVote
OpenDataVote – a cooperative effort between Azavea, Tech Impact, Technical.ly Media, Code for Philly, the City of Philadelphia and others – gives social service and advocacy groups a platform to nominate data sets that are not currently openly available but which they need in order to support their mission, and the public an opportunity to…
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Philadelphia Plans to Prioritize Data Nominated by Nonprofits During OpenDataVote
OpenDataVote – a cooperative effort between Azavea, Tech Impact, Technical.ly Media, Code for Philly, the City of Philadelphia and others – gives social service and advocacy groups a platform to nominate data sets that are not currently openly available but which they need in order to support their mission, and the public an opportunity to…
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Volunteers Put 9,000 Buildings on a Map Used to Plan Malaria Eradication Efforts
More than 65 volunteers gathered for a 4-hour marathon mapping session – the Philly Mapathon – during PhillyTechWeek to put vulnerable communities on the map. The data that was recorded during the event will be used by NGOs like Humanitarian OpenStreetMap and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to plan malaria eradication interventions in Zimbabwe. Charlotte…
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Case Study: How to Map Nonprofit Donors and Clients
Our Data Analytics Team produced a webinar series on Data-Driven Advocacy for Nonprofits. The 3rd webinar, 5 questions you can answer with maps and data visualizations, is now split into 5 short videos, one on each question. This post covers the first video, including details of a case study. Where are my current clients and donors? Where can…
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GitHub Pull Request Template Workflow
Being a professional services team, we at Civic Apps work on a number of projects in parallel in various stages of completion. They range in age (brand new projects to 6 year old legacy codebases), size (from simple single page apps to complex multi-tier systems), and technology (JavaScript, Python, Scala, C#). We use a number…
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Release of Important City Data On The Line in OpenDataVote
OpenDataVote is a cooperative effort between many partners including Azavea, Tech Impact, Technical.ly Media, Code for Philly, the City of Philadelphia and others. This initiative gives the public an opportunity to vote for the data sets they believe their government should release as open data. The public voting stage of OpenDataVote continues until May 1 at 5pm…
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Raster Foundry: Geospatial Analysis at Any Scale
Azavea has a rich history of productizing our research: from forecasting crime to managing green infrastructure in cities to aggregating elected official data. One of the primary reasons that I love working here is our ongoing commitment to supporting research that translates directly into civic and social impact (typically by making complex analytical tools approachable…
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5 Questions You Can Answer with Maps and Data Visualizations
The Azavea Data Analytics Team is holding the last installment of the Map Readiness webinar series on March 22nd, 2017 from 2-3pm EST. We’ll walk you through the analytics techniques and tools we use to help our nonprofit partners answer their biggest questions. Optimize Your Nonprofit As you may know, we at Azavea’s Data Analytics Team…
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A World’s Worth of VectorTiles
This post outlines our general approach, our current status, and some of the roadbumps we’ve hit along the way while developing a free-and-open-source pipeline in Mapbox VectorTiles.
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Strategies for reducing memory usage in Django migrations
This post is a collection of strategies for reducing memory usage during Django migrations.
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GeoDocker Development Workflow
In this post we discuss our experience using GeoDocker, a collection of Docker containers, to overcome challenges associated with developing, testing, and deploying data projects.
