Writing from the field — on data infrastructure, AI in practice, and how we build the platforms behind real-world impact.
Someone recently asked us for Population Density by US Zip Code (per square mile). We sourced and cleaned this data, then uploaded to our data platform Secure Data Kit, and visualized the data with Metabase.
This past week, we launched a website that can track COVID-19 / Coronavirus in all 50 states down to the county level.
We're creating this thread to start to track what resources we use to build maps. Specifically state by state county geoJSON sources, data sources of the outbreak, etc. This is a big effort so we're starting small and local but will hope to grow this in the coming days and weeks.
Core values are the sort of thing that are usually created to help give founders a North Star on how to build a team. Our idea when we created them was two fold: to help build a team and to help build a client roster.
When it comes to using maps for data visualization, the term heatmap is used rather loosely. It tends to be used to describe any map that uses colors to categorize location based data. However there is a distinction between geographic heatmaps and choropleth maps. Let's compare...
