It is hard to ignore the growth of Data Science and the explosion of the phrase “powered by AI” in company websites. While I do not have an advanced degree, any company that has a Data Science team should also ensure that their Product Managers understand the basics at the…

My fascination with maps, especially relief maps, goes back to childhood. Both of my parents were teachers: maps were all over the house. In college for my senior fine arts project I made a relief map of a hypothetical location out of wood. Today there’s easy and affordable access to…

It is easy to forget how important time in when it comes to understanding the world. Change over time is what feeds most prediction engines and it is vital for understanding how something is increasing or decreasing. …

It is easy to forget in a time of huge advances in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence that by it’s very nature models are not perfect. One of the greatest headaches is how to tackle measuring how accurate a model is in contrast to the know truth. The first step…

It is easy to forget how much data is stored in the conversations we have every day. With the evolution of the digital landscape, tapping into text, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), is a growing field in artificial intelligence and machine learning. …

Hack·a·thon — an event, typically lasting several days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming. The journey began shortly after starting my fellowship at the Vermont Center for Geographic Information (VCGI), the State of Vermont’s office of geospatial data and technology, when a…

Geospatial data has become an increasingly important subject in the modern world and what is where has become a driving force both in tradition realms as well as the rapidly growing digital one. Geospatial data usually refers to data with Latitude/Longitude or other reference points to geographic locations along with…

When I was a kid I was watching Star Wars with my Dad and he asked me if the dogfighting spaceship were going up or down. My response, “Dad, that’s silly, there is no up or down in space!” In space there is no constant reference when you are in…

In an increasingly data driven world, charts have started appearing everywhere from news feeds to activity tracker. Some are beautifully visualized (the NY Times Visualization Lab does amazing work) but more often than not the quality can be lacking and the results confusing or even misleading. We use visualizations to…