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Dan Pilone on the Minds Behind Maps Podcast
Earlier this month, Dan Pilone, our Co-founder and CEO spent a few hours with Maxime Lenormand at the Minds Behind Maps Podcast. The conversation spans a variety of topics from Dask and Xarray, game theory and open source software, through people-focused growth and Element 84’s hiring process. Dan Pilone is the CEO and co-founder of […]
2022 Trends in Geospatial
Azavea’s CEO Robert Cheetham provides 6 trends he foresees in geospatial this year. These predictions are grounded in Robert’s personal experience and perspective as Azavea CEO.
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How a Small Tech Company Has Adjusted to the Hybrid Work Environment: Insights from 2021
2021 brought a lot of challenges to tech companies and many have concerns leading into 2022. Considering how much we learned from 2021, as the year came to a close we gathered learnings from our colleagues to help us work effectively in 2022. We wanted to share some of these tips and plans for this upcoming year as a way to support our friends in the tech-for-good community.
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Improving City Transit Networks through Data and Public Policy
Using open source data and easily customizable software, Azavea worked with PeopleForBikes to improve city transit networks.
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Labeling SAR Imagery for Machine Learning: A Beginners Guide
SAR imagery is having a moment. In this blog we explore what exactly it is, why it is so special, and tips for labeling it.
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GroundWork Launches Campaigns
Need to create a training dataset that contains multiple images? GroundWork launches “Campaigns” to help you handle large datasets for machine learning.
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Making Gender Data Actionable
Azavea partnered with Facebook and Ladysmith to make an engaging platform that makes data from a massive gender survey actionable.
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A Day in the Work-Life in 2020
2020 was awful. Who was accessible changed radically. We, and the people around us, by necessity took on different roles. Including at work.
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A Guide for Grantmakers: How to Evaluate Software Development Proposals
Grantmaking organizations are often asked to fund software development, but are unsure of how to evaluate the scope, budget, or potential impact of these types of projects. We created this list of the key questions to ask when evaluating a software development proposal.
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Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry
We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.
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