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Open Civic Data Standards: Book of Adopted and Proposed Standards
The Open Civic Data Standards ebook outlines the status of open data standards in several civic domains and lists domains where there is strong potential for developing or defining new open data standards.
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#HOTLunch: Volunteer Your Lunch Break to Support Disaster Relief Efforts
Volunteer your lunch break for #HOTLunch to map features that NGOs use to plan aid efforts in response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.
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The Road Ahead for DistrictBuilder and Public Redistricting
Seven years ago Azavea began working with the Public Mapping Project to create DistrictBuilder, an open source, web software tool that would enable people to draw their own legislative district plans. We worked with leading redistricting experts: Michael McDonald (Associate Professor at the University of Florida and head of the Elections Project) and Micah Altman…
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The Evolution of Our Redistricting and Gerrymandering Work
In part 1 of our series on Azavea’s redistricting and gerrymandering work, we look at the history of our involvement in this space and what we’re currently working on. Gerrymandering, compactness, contiguity, the efficiency gap. These are the kinds of words that make a lot of redistricting nerds excited these days. Rarely does the application…
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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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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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Two Research Grants Awarded for New Imagery Processing Tools
We discuss two research grants we were awarded for our imagery processing tools: Raster Foundry and ModelLab.
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Updated Philadelphia Political Ward Data on OpenDataPhilly
In this post, we discuss our findings after compiling historic Philadelphia political ward data and ward division data from different sources.
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Focus
I’ve struggled with what I should write about for my first e84 blog post. You see, I’m not your typical high-tech employee. I don’t have a computer science degree. I’m not a math nut. I’ve never solved a Rubik’s Cube. That being said, I’ve got experience ranging a wide gamut of disciplines that I’ve managed…