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How We Select Projects
As a mission-based organization, how we select the projects we pursue is an ongoing conversation at Azavea. We share our thought process here.
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How We Select Projects
As a mission-based organization, how we select the projects we pursue is an ongoing conversation at Azavea. We share our thought process here.
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High Stakes, Hard Certs
Deciding to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional exam at re:Invent. This certification is considered one of the toughest to achieve in IT, and it lived up to the hype. It was brutal. So brutal in fact, that after seeing that I passed, I questioned why I took it, whether it was worth it,…
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Six Ways we Fund Innovation
Without outside funding and given our commitment to openly sharing our knowledge, people often ask: How do you fund your innovation? We outline 6 main ways.
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Temperate: Your Climate Adaptation Planning Companion
Azavea rolled out Temperate, a climate adaptation planning app, in 2018. Get the details here.
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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…
