Writing a classification algorithm to build precinct shapefiles in Ohio

About the project This past summer I worked at the Voting Rights Data Institute at Tufts and MIT in Cambridge, MA. Broadly, we worked on projects related to...

Mapping DC's urban farms and gardens

I made spring rolls for dinner with vegetables I got from the market (some of them, at least) and it reminded me of how much I love urban agriculture. It...

advicegiveR: Developing my first package!

I passed another one of my R milestones this week: I built my first R package! It’s simple, easy to maintain, fun, and a great way for me to start...

Making a GIF of Solar Panel Installations in Minnesota and Wisconsin

My friend Nadia has been working on her (amazing!) honors thesis in economics about solar energy in homes and peer effects. She wanted to make some maps of the number...

Spatial clustering of personal belief exemptions for vaccines in California

I’m someone who learned GIS by using ArcGIS. As I became more comfortable with R, Python, and QGIS, though, I was frustrated by how inaccessible ESRI products are to many...