Azavea Inc.

They believe in the power of technology to improve communities and the planet. Since 2001, they have been stretching the possibilities of geospatial technology to enable their clients to answer complex questions in a wide range of domains: urban ecosystems, water, infrastructure planning, economic development, public transit, elections, public safety, energy, and cultural resources management, to name a few. They make your geographic data more valuable by creating beautiful and scalable web and mobile applications, and by creating analytics that uncover insights in your data. Software Development They can help you increase your organization's impact by creating web and mobile software that is attractive, easy-to-use, and based on the latest technology. User Experience Design Through the development of personas, proven design processes, paper prototyping, and user-centered approaches, their responsive designs will address your audiences and their stakeholders’ distinct needs. Data Analytics Turn your data into an asset. By formatting, processing, geocoding, and analyzing your data they'll help you unearth the unexpected. Harness geospatial analysis and visualization for lasting civic, social, and environmental impact. Big Geospatial Data They can use GeoTrellis, Spark, Amazon Web Services, and other tools to build complex web applications that work with large data sets by distributing the work across computer clusters. Research & Development They both partner with their clients on collaborative research and develop their own research projects. They have extensive experience writing and winning grants from NEH, NIJ, NIH, NSF, DoE, NASA, USDA, and private foundations to support the development of their clients' projects. Technology They Use Azavea’s developers work closely with our User Experience (UX) Design team to build user-focused web and mobile applications in a range of languages and frameworks, including Javascript, Python, Scala, and R. They strive for elegant solutions to complex problems to bring about positive change. Their Data Analytics team helps their clients tell compelling data-driven stories to advance their missions, with tools like CartoDB, Mapbox, and ArcGIS Online. They assist them to make informed decisions using statistics, map algebra, and open-source tools such as GeoDa, R, and QGIS.