Mapping & Data Analytics Blog @cori-risi - Recent Posts

Estimating local impact of broadband adoption

Last year, exciting research surfaced around estimating the impact of broadband services on economic activity. In particular, results from the Beyond Connectivity Report sugg…

Lindsey Elliott & Drew Rosebush

The reclassification of rural counties and what it means for rural America

Why is rural America perceived as being perpetually in decline? In part, because superstar rural counties often grow into run-of-the-mill urban counties.

Camden Blatchly

How we work with Form D filings

We access raw Form D filings using the dform package. There are two datasets: issuers and offerings. The issuers dataset describes entities which are filing an offering…

Camden Blatchly

Recapping our favorite visualizations of 2024

From downtown placemaking to broadband planning and economic research, data-driven analysis has remained at the heart of CORI’s work this past year. To highlight the hard…

Camden Blatchly

Democratizing analytics on FCC’s (big) data

Accessing data about access to broadband

The FCC’s public release of the National Broadband Map should, in theory, allow broadband providers to maximize their access to the unprecedented availability of public and…

John Hall, Olivier Leroy

3 cool uses of the cori.data.fcc package

A quick primer on accessing, analyzing, and mapping FCC data using the cori.data.fcc package

Camden Blatchly

From elephant to duck!

There are a lot of conversations — understandably — on the use of Apache Parquet, Apache Arrow and DuckDB.

Olivier Leroy, John Hall

The top 10 micropolitan areas for raising venture capital

Venture capital funding plays a pivotal role in bolstering a region’s economy by catalyzing innovation, fostering job creation, and attracting talent.

Brittany Kainen

Using SEC Form D to estimate venture capital

The ability of private companies to raise capital serves as a crucial indicator of entrepreneurial activity. The Security and Exchange Commission’s Form D is a publicly…

Brittany Kainen

MDA’s URISA-2023 presentation

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association — better known as URISA — is the main association for professionals in the GIS and geospatial space.

Olivier Leroy, Drew Rosebush

Six tips for mapping rural data

Mapping rural data is hard! Between sparse populations, inaccurate data, and the challenge of defining what even counts as rural, creating accurate and meaningful maps can…

Camden Blatchly

Awesome jq and GeoJSON

If you are manipulating a lot of GeoJSON features/objects and want a quick CLI tool to filter and slice them, you should give jq a try! Since there are not many tutorials…