Tag: Mapping

Introduction: The issue of police violence in the United States is a topic of profound concern and debate. The tragic incidents that have occurred in recent years have ignited a nationwide conversation about the use of force by law enforcement agencies. To shed light on this pressing issue, I embar...

Go beyond static org charts with a dynamic work map. In this guide, we include why you should map in the first place, who to get involved, what to document, and how to go about doing it. A work map is an evolving reference that visualises the different ...

For all the attention paid to gentrification by urbanists — and increasingly by popular media — there’s very little consensus around the term. There’s no clear way of defining or measuring it, and there’s even wide disagreement about whether it’s go...

Transparency is a cross-cutting human rights principle, which helps to strengthen decision-making to enable better outcomes for people. IHRB is partnering with Dark Matter Labs to identify the largest owners of urban land in four European cities, as part of its project Build...

When I first arrived in Miami in November 2020 from New York, I never would have guessed that I would still be here today. While I knew that Miami had a small but thriving startup scene, I never expected that it would grow so significantly over the past 2.5 years, catapulting the area into the top 1...

Crowdsourced data are increasingly being used in transportation planning and operations. Take, for example, the Strava Metro dataset. The mobility data platform is powered by Strava’s more than 90 million worldwide users who track their activities such as bike rides, runs, walks, and hike...

As the world finalises negotiations over a new Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15, there is a general consensus to aim for protecting or conserving up to 30% of the planet by 2030. The aim of achieving this percentage is to halt biodiversity loss and start to recover areas for conservation. H...

If you haven’t downloaded QGIS go ahead and do that now, here. During my college years I used ArcMap pretty extensively for undergraduate research. Now that I’m on my own and don’t have that luxury, I was looking for something cheap, or better yet free, to get my mapping skill...

This user-experience method was explored in a workshop at the Pratt Institute School of Information led by Allegra Burnette and was attended by students in the Museums & Digital Culture and Information Experience Design (IXD) programs. Burnette is an independent consultant who focuses ...

Chinese (or more accurately Mandarin), like my native language Vietnamese, is a tonal language. The difference is that Vietnamese has 6 tones (sắc, huyền, hỏi, ngã, nặng, không) while Chinese only has 5 tones (mā, má, mǎ, m&agrave...