Axioms
December 19th 2018
Geography, Mapping, Politics, Redistricting
Involving American Citizens in Redistricting
American citizens have never been truly able to choose who they get to vote into office. The quality of citizen participation – the amount of impact their individual vote will have – almost certainly depends on the officials they have previously elected. Redistricting in the United States generally depends on the legislators who have been …more…
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January 9th 2018
Configuration, Homebrew, Mac, Open Source Software, Technology
Getting Your Mac Ready For GIS work
A terrible Mac incident required me to reformat my Mac and reinstall everything from scratch to do desktop GIS. This is also an opportunity to standardize everything on Homebrew. The advantage to this is that all your tools are drawn from the same stack and relate to each other, in addition to being easily updatable …more…
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June 23rd 2017
Uncategorized
Dheeraj Chand: Founding Partner
Dheeraj comes to Clarity and Rigour from a life that sounds like a novel written by a hipster. He was born in Queens, New York, and grew up traveling all over Asia because of his father’s job. It was traveling all over the world like this that made him start to question the relationships between …more…
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October 21st 2016
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John Holden: Founding Partner
John Holden has a wealth of experience with geographic data. Holden has worked on a number of different projects in several different areas. Holden has worked with IUCN and the Clinton Foundation to help restore monocultural plantation land in central Vietnam. Holden has also worked in the political sphere, creating maps to improve field efficiency …more…
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