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Research Grant for $1.5 Million Awarded to Develop Web-based Climate Change Impact Assessment Service
Accessible climate change analysis tools, like this climate change impact assessment service, will help local decision-makers proactively manage disaster risk, ensure access to safe water and food, and strengthen preparedness and response strategies.
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Research Grant for $1.5 Million Awarded to Develop Web-based Climate Change Impact Assessment Service
Accessible climate change analysis tools, like this climate change impact assessment service, will help local decision-makers proactively manage disaster risk, ensure access to safe water and food, and strengthen preparedness and response strategies.
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Testing with VCR and Token Authentication
If you are using VCR to record/playback HTTP requests for your Rails tests, you may run into problems if your cassettes use tokens to authenticate with those services. VCR uses a RequestMatcher to determine if an outgoing request (and response) already exist in a cassette. Upon finding a match, the test will use the response…
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Major Research Grant Awarded for Climate Change Data Service
We detail a recent Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant we were awarded from the U.S. Department of Energy for our climate change data service.
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Functional Programming for the Functionally Challenged (Like Me) – Part 2
In the last post we looked at functional approaches to solving problems typically solved using loops in imperative languages. These problems centered around list-like data structures such as arrays or vectors. In this post we will look at more complicated nested data structures.
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Proto REPL: A new Clojure REPL for the Atom Editor
I’d like to introduce a new Clojure REPL, Proto REPL, that I created as a plugin to the Atom editor. Proto REPL lets you develop Clojure applications in Atom using an interactive REPL driven development experience. nn nn Proto REPL Features nn n Send blocks of code or selections from an editor tab to the…
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Calculating Daytime Population at the Census Tract Level for the Entire US
In this post, we calculate and discuss daytime population at the census tract level for the entire US.
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Preparing Geographic Data for Your Next Design Project in Illustrator
This guide presents the steps to convert a GIS shapefile of streets or roads into an SVG file that can be viewed and manipulated in Adobe Illustrator or a similar program.
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Functional Programming for the Functionally Challenged (Like Me) – Part 1
This is the first post in a series dedicated to presenting solutions to common challenges that developers encounter when moving from an imperative programming approach to functional programming (FP). I will present a series of problems and provide solutions in both Java and Elixir, a functional language running on the Erlang VM.
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Displaying Hierarchical Geographic Data with a D3 Tree, or How to Fit 23 Maps of Philadelphia on One "Page"
In this blog, we discuss our experience displaying hierarchical geographic data with a D3 tree, and how to fit multiple maps of Philadelphia on one page.
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Creating a Tree Planting Prioritization Model in QGIS
In this post, we detail our experience creating a tree planting prioritization model in QGIS.
