Where are People Going? A Visual Analysis
New York City, 9 a.m., where are people going? SafeGraph and makepath teamed up to show people movement patterns in 10 U.S. metro areas at different times of the day, [...]
The Battle of the Brands: Foot Traffic Edition
This project was a collaboration with our partner company, SafeGraph, a data company seeking to understand the world and power innovation through open access to geospatial data. Chase vs Wells Fargo [...]
The History of Open Source GIS: An Interactive Infographic
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology is a powerful way to understand our world. Thanks to the open source community, the public today has access to excellent analysis tools, and [...]
Superpowered GIS: ESRI’s ArcGIS + Open Source Spatial Analysis Tools.
The 2020 Esri User Conference is happening next week. It's virtual this year due to COVID-19, but I’m sure the event will be full of great presentations and announcements. [...]
In-Depth Video: Pharmacy Desert Identification with Open Source Spatial Analysis Tools
Our co-founder Brendan Collins did an in-depth walkthrough of how we used spatial analysis tools to identify pharmacy deserts. This video is a companion to the original blog post [...]
Seniors at Risk: Using Spatial Analysis to Identify Pharmacy Deserts
Seniors are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. At makepath, we build and use open source spatial analysis tools such as Xarray-Spatial and Datashader. In this post, we show [...]
The State of Spatial Data Science: A Perspective from CARTO.
This guest post was written by Javier de la Torre, CSO and Founder of CARTO, a makepath partner company. Spatial data science (SDS) is a subset of Data Science [...]
Open Source Spatial Analysis Tools for Python: A Quick Guide
Spatial analysis is a type of GIS analysis that uses math and geometry to understand patterns that happen over space and time, including patterns of human behavior and natural phenomena. [...]
COVID-19 Public-Private Partnership: The Center for Environmental Medicine and Informatics (CEMI) at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) and makepath Working with Safegraph to Understand Virus Mortality
We are excited to announce the partnership between makepath, Safegraph and the The Center for Environmental Medicine and Informatics (CEMI) at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) [...]
makepath Video Series #1: Introduction to Xarray-Spatial
We are excited to share the first video on our YouTube channel. We'd love your feedback...what videos do you want to see? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeDybKaBJjs&t=8s