Coleman McCormick

Topic / data

26 posts

Open Buildings

July 18, 2023 • #

Google publishes an open archive of 1.8 billion building footprints.

Census GPT

April 24, 2023 • #

Training GPT-4 on US Census data.

Library 2.0

March 6, 2020 • #

Upgrading my library database to use Airtable.

Reading Metrics

January 9, 2020 • #

Metrics about my reading habits in 2019.

Beautiful News

December 5, 2019 • #

A look at the positive side of the news, using data and visualization.

Weekend Reading: Observable Edition

September 7, 2019 • #

This week highlighting a few Observable notebooks on cryptography, bicycle chainring calculators, and generative maps.

Mapbox Boundaries

February 14, 2019 • #

Mapbox's 'Boundaries' product for enterprise customers provides an impressive base dataset.

Fulcrum Desktop

January 4, 2019 • #

On our Fulcrum Desktop syncing tool, a companion to the Fulcrum API.

It's Time for a Data Bill of Rights

December 20, 2018 • #

Martin Tisne argues that the concept of data ownership isn't enough, that we need governance structures more priimtive than that.