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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.

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#HOTLunch: Volunteer Your Lunch Break to Support Disaster Relief Efforts

By Dan Ford on October 2nd, 2017

Volunteer your lunch break for #HOTLunch to map features that NGOs use to plan aid efforts in response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

Fig. 1 - Density of building inspection failures

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Predicting Building Code Compliance with Machine Learning Models

By Simon Kassel on September 21st, 2017

Which buildings should inspectors prioritize? We used machine learning models to predict building code compliance and address resource allocation questions.

Evolution of Azavea Redistricting & Gerrymandering Work

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The Evolution of Azavea’s Redistricting and Gerrymandering Work

By Daniel McGlone on July 18th, 2017

In part 1 of our series on Azavea’s redistricting and gerrymandering work, we look at the history of our involvement...

Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Imagery by Azavea

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Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation of Aerial and Satellite Imagery

By Lewis Fishgold and Rob Emanuele on May 30th, 2017

This post describes how to use deep learning to do semantic segmentation on aerial and satellite imagery, experiments on the ISPRS Potsdam dataset, and how to visualize model predictions on a map.

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Philadelphia Plans to Prioritize Data Nominated by Nonprofits During OpenDataVote

By Dan Ford on May 17th, 2017

OpenDataVote – a cooperative effort between Azavea, Tech Impact, Technical.ly Media, Code for Philly, the City of Philadelphia and others...