Data surrounds us. It’s everywhere, in the most micro sense (small gadgets that track calories we’ve burned, or how much water our plants need) to the most macro (analytics companies that can monitor, ...

You’re wandering in the woods, looking for a secret that environmental clues have indicated is in the area. You pull out your map. It is unhelpfully vague, includes no topographical features, and you ...

Python’s geospatial ecosystem, led by GeoPandas, makes mapping, analyzing, and visualizing location-based data intuitive and powerful. From environmental studies to urban planning, these tools reveal ...

For the last several years I’ve been showing Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff” whenever I teach climate science to my students. I find it is interesting for them to think about where our “stuff” ...

One of the key features of Google Maps navigation is the spoken directions, which allow users to follow a suggested route without looking at the screen. The voice guidance is integral to the ...

A few months ago, John Keefe wrote a Poynter.org How To about using shapefiles. The power of the shapefile, he wrote, is the ability to refer to regions instead of points. But what if your data has ...

Consulting engineers and other AEC firms have always had to deliver services far beyond design, but today’s data-driven projects are giving them fresh opportunities to turn client data into something ...