Keeping Track of Special Elections in Cicero
By Daniel McGlone on December 12th, 2017
The Cicero team keeps track of special elections for every state legislature in the country. In 2017, we tracked 103 special elections.
A Terraform Module for Amazon Elastic MapReduce
By Hector Castro on December 6th, 2017
We encapsulated all resources required to launch an Amazon EMR cluster into a reusable Terraform module to leverage for batch GeoTrellis workflows with Apache Spark.
Climate Change Projections for Excessive Heat Days at Arizona Airports
By Ross Bernet on November 29th, 2017
We used GeoPySpark, Python binding for GeoTrellis, to analyze climate change data and determine Arizona airports at risk for excessive heat days.
Serving Tiles with GeoTrellis, Lambda, and API Gateway
By James Santucci on October 30th, 2017
Have this open source serverless tile server built with the Serverless framework, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, and GeoTrellis up and running in minutes.
Access Local Legislative Data for United States Cities
By Aaron Dennis on October 17th, 2017
Cicero has expanded to track 2,488 local officials representing over 84 million Americans in the largest cities and towns across the country.
What’s the Best Way to Contact Your Representatives?
By Stephanie Thome on October 3rd, 2017
The best and worst ways to contact your representatives. We asked hundreds of state senators and representatives how they prefer to be contacted.