Open Data Archives

Automated Building Footprint Extraction (Part 2): Evaluation Metrics

By Lewis Fishgold on November 1st, 2022

In the second part of our Automated Building Footprint Extraction series, we review some evaluation metrics for building footprint extraction.

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Azavea’s 10% Time Program: How We Encourage Innovation Internally

By Robert Cheetham on October 3rd, 2022

We outline our 10% time program in detail, highlight some notable examples and themes, and describe the impact of the program.

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1% For Open Source: Financial Support for Tools We Use

By Robert Cheetham on August 17th, 2022

We donate a portion of our profits each year to support open source projects nominated by our team.

Screenshot of Bar chart within the Gender Survey application, hovering on Women in Angola bar.

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Making Gender Data Actionable

By Stacy Deininger on March 8th, 2021

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

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Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry

By Deb Boyer on August 31st, 2020

We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.

Spatial Analysis

How We Built a National Hospital Dataset for Coronavirus Relief

By Simon Kassel on June 9th, 2020

We pulled data from disparate hospital data sources to create a comprehensive national dataset of the hospital system for the COVID-19 response, using geocoding, proximity matching, and fuzzy string matching.