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Software Developers and Data Analytics

Azavea is a Philadelphia-based B Corporation that applies geospatial technology for civic and social impact.  In addition to building software and data analytics, Azavea does research related to data science, distributed computing, and high performance spatial data processing.  Their Philadelphia projects include PhillyHistory.org, OpenDataPhilly, stormwater billing,building energy benchmarking, and PhillyTreeMap.  Some of Azavea's civic technology projects have been turned into SaaS products including: Cicero for data about democratic institutions, OpenTreeMap for managing urban ecosystem data, and HunchLab for crime risk forecasting.  OpenTreeMap is one of several software tools that the company releases under open source licenses, and others include DistrictBuilder and GeoTrellis.

The Original Developers Of Open Data Philly

OpenDataPhilly is a catalog of open data in the Philadelphia region. In addition to being the official open data repository for the City, it includes data sets from many organizations in the region.  Azavea originally developed the software as a pro bono project in April 2011.  They turned the project over to AxisPhilly in 2012, but after AxisPhilly failed in 2014, they re-built and re-released the proejct in January 2015.    

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