How to enrich your addresses with coordinates for GeoSpatial Analysis By Chu on February 15, 2025 — 1 min read When you’re doing primary research in developing countries, you quickly find that the data can be quite raw and needs some standardization before it can be useful for further development. I’ve found geocoding addresses to be a low hanging fruit that at least allows you to start seeing some data spatially. This is how to... More
The Spark: Theory, Practice, and why I’m betting on Africa. By Chu on November 30, 2021 — 2 mins read I took piano lessons as a teenager from when i was around 12-14. Mr. Johnson was a good teacher, we used Smallwood’s piano tutorial and by the time i gave it up i was able to play pieces in C, G and F. Now? I can only play basic nursery rhymes from memory, but at... More
We get Design but we’re not Designers, yet. By Chu on February 26, 2018 — 1 min read After going through a painful web design process for a friend, I never want to make a website that’s not mine again. To really get going this year, we need an in-house designer. Design fascinates me, but I’m not a designer and can’t do it at the quality or speed that’s critical for our work here. So... More
