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Getting Started Exploring All 1.5 Million Nonprofits in the US
In this post we discuss how to find and categorize data about all of the 1.5 million US nonprofits.
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Getting Started Exploring All 1.5 Million Nonprofits in the US
In this post we discuss how to find and categorize data about all of the 1.5 million US nonprofits.
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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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Civic Apps Team React/Redux Project Structure
In this blog, we discuss our experience moving to using React/Redux and Webpack to build our JavaScript applications.
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Measuring District Compactness in PostGIS
In this blog we discuss strategies for measuring district compactness in PostGIS.
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Serving Local Mapbox Vector Tiles with Docker
In this post we outline how to serve local Mapbox vector tiles with Docker.
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Using Python’s LXML in Amazon Lambda
In this post, we detail our experience using Python’s LXML in Amazon Lambda.
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GeoTrellis 0.10.0 is released
This post details the GeoTrellis 0.10 release including all significant changes and improvements.
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How Philadelphians Get To Work: Calculating Mode Share and Dot Density Maps in CartoDB
In this post we calculate mode share and dot density maps in CartoDB to depict how Philadelphians get to work.
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Proto REPL – Updates to the Clojure REPL for Atom
Proto REPL is a Clojure REPL for the Atom Editor that I introduced in a blog post last October. When I introduced Proto REPL, I wrote “The future of interactive development is going to be visual.” and that “ATOM is at its heart a web browser that means you can use the combination of HTML/CSS/JavaScript…
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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…