- April 16, 2021
- Belle Lipton
Get to Know Your Data: City of Boston Parks Department
We spoke with City of Boston analysts about creating and maintaining publicly engaging and socially responsible datasets
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- March 19, 2021
- Belle Lipton
Get to Know Your Data: A Conversation with MassDOT
We spoke with Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s lead developer to discuss what it means to oversee public data
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- January 23, 2022
- Ian Spangler and Scott Markley
Reporting on redlining: an interview with Scott Markley
How can we make historic data about segregation, redlining, and real estate more useful and accessible? In this Get to Know Your Data interview, we dive into a new data set derived from HOLC maps.
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- June 17, 2022
- Ian Spangler
All the maps, all the time: an interview with Bert Spaan
Digitized maps—especially georeferenced ones—can be tough to find, hard to access, and difficult to bring to life. With his Allmaps project, Bert Spaan is trying to change that.
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- December 3, 2025
- Kate Lautenbach
Dating every building in Boston
Why tax assessments are actually interesting
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- March 10, 2023
- Joshua Aldwinckle-Povey, Nick Duffy, Vy Phan, Aditi Shankar
An Interview with the Spring 2023 Interns
Meet the team of wonderful student interns who have been hard at work this semester on various LMEC projects
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- May 28, 2021
- Belle Lipton
Get to Know Your Data: The Center for Housing Data
We spoke with the Massachusetts Housing Partnership about public access to housing data
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- June 15, 2021
- Eric Robsky Huntley, Garrett Dash Nelson, and Michelle LeBlanc
Maps with Young Learners in Mind
A new grant-funded project in collaboration with faculty and students at MIT will support the development of tools to teach critical geospatial data at the pK-12 level
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- October 26, 2021
- Michelle LeBlanc
Beyond the Map: Engaging Audiences with GIS at the Leventhal Map & Education Center
Leventhal Center staff recently published an article in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries that highlights the Center’s geospatial data work, including use of our public data portal and our Maptivists initiative with Boston high schools.
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