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Open Mapping Happy Hour in Berlin
We'll be at Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin next week talking about open data in elections, OSM for disaster preparedness, and building better APIs.If you are in Berlin, come say hey Wednesday night...
View ArticleVisualizing Water Cut Backs in Las Vegas
Lake Mead, providing Las Vegas with 90 percent of its water needs, has reached its lowest water levels since its original filling and the city has implemented mandatory water cuts of 4.6 percent per...
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Alireza joins Development Seed
We welcome engineer Alireza J to Development Seed. Alireza will be helping us to build smarter and faster. He will help us to build more usable and useful APIs, develop robust open source tools for...
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Opening an election, thank you Github
We just published our analysis "What Happened in the Afghanistan Elections?". I worked with Drew Bollinger to examine the degree and impact of potential election fraud in the country by comparing the...
View ArticleJekyll-hook Updated; Run your own Github Pages
We just released v0.2 for Jekyll-hook. We love GitHub and the simplicity of publishing sites to GitHub Pages. This workflow allows us to rapidly build and easily maintain CMS-free data-driven websites....
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Hello, SRCCON
Derek and I are excited to be at SRCCON in Philly this Thursday and Friday. We'll co-facilitate a Super Mappin' session, discussing how we deploy huge datasets into maps using unapologetic frontend...
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Adding Context to Afghanistan Runoff Elections
Following the 2009 election in Afghanistan, this picture helped quantify the extent of elections fraud in that election.This map was part of afghanistanelectiondata.org, a open election data site that...
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Extracting building height from Lidar
Lidar is similar to radar...but with lasers. Lidar produces incredibly accurate and specific spatial information, making it great for measuring building heights and modeling the impact of floods and...
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Exploring space faster
Exploring events from space is going to get a little easier. Below is a sneak peek of a simple and smart utility we're working on to save ourselves some time searching, downloading, and processing...
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Power tools for Satellite Imagery
Our love affair with Landsat iswelldocumented. Today we are sharing the Landsat love with landsat-util, a command line utility that makes it easy to search, download, and process Landsat imagery. We...
View ArticleFlood Monitoring with Satellites
Last week monsoon rainfall caused flooding in areas across India and Pakistan. Srinagar experienced severe flooding and relief efforts are now underway. Satellite imagery offers a first response look...
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Development in the Time of Climate Change
International development is getting harder. Climate change, population strains, and conflict over resources threaten to undo many of the gains made toward the Millenium Development goals. Doing...
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Major Open Data Push by the Mexican Government
The Mexican Government is investing heavily in open data to directly make government more effective and the country more productive. Today, kicking off the regonal open data gathering in Latin America...
View ArticleThanks for Having Us, ONA
This past weekend Jue and I presented at the Online News Association Conference in Chicago. We shared what we've learned from creating mapping sites that toggle through a high volume of data:...
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Giving context to open spending data
Yesterday the government of Mexico launched datos.gob.mx to open up government data across all ministries. We built a mapping tool for ministries to quickly build rich maps from data on the site. The...
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Howdy Dan McCarey
Dan McCarey has joined Development Seed. Dan is going to help us to turn complex data into compelling stories. Dan is an information designer and web developer. He buildspowerfulwebsites. Dan is...
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Getting Green into Green Energy
Reversing climate change means investing in green energy, and as the sustainable sector grows, ensuring it grows in both developing and developed countries. Today the Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones...
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Marhaba Marc Farra
Marc Farra has joined the Development Seed team. Marc loves to experiment with image processing, arduino sensors, and data infrastructure. He is going to help us explore new ways to collect and process...
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Dauria Geo completing new design specs
Dauria Geo is just completing new design specs for their Perseus satellite constellations. Perseus-O, a constellation of 8 satellites, will provide daily global coverage of all arable land at 22 meters...
View ArticleHey there, designers.
At Development Seed, design is not about pushing pixels or passing a perfect mockup to the next person. It is about truly understanding — and sometimes defining — a problem, working out a systemic...
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