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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.

  • 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.

  • Making Gender Data Actionable

    Azavea partnered with Facebook and Ladysmith to make an engaging platform that makes data from a massive gender survey actionable.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Business Case for Raster Vision

    Raster Vision is the interface between the fields of earth observation and deep learning, making it easier to apply novel computer vision techniques to geospatial imagery of all types. Joe lays out how it can be implemented in your organization and give you a competitive advantage.

  • Five Strategies for Building a Bootstrapped Product

    Without taking on copious outside investment, we have to support our products with only a share of our available time and resources. Here are five strategies we use to build successful bootstrapped products.

  • Revisiting the Ethics of Project Selection

    A major part of how Azavea pursues its mission is tied to how we select our projects. As our work on Earth observation imagery has grown, we felt it was time to develop a guideline around a new industry: energy.

  • Hosting An Online Conference: Philly Emerging Technology for the Enterprise (ETE)

    Conferences are great for a variety of reasonsโ€“getting exposed to cool up-and-coming technologies, connecting with old friends, and doing recruiting and business development. For the last few years, Iโ€™ve been a co-organizer for Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE)โ€“a fantastic developer-focused conference that has run in Philadelphia for fourteen years. While ETE was planned…

  • Join the OpenCities AI Challenge and Detect Building Footprints from Aerial Imagery

    We partnered with Driven Data and the World Bank to develop the Open Cities AI Challenge. This challenge uses machine learning to extract building footprints in unmapped areas to promote disaster resilience.