Named entity recognition for Twitter
By: George Cooper, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Radiant Solutions
In a previous HumanGeo blog post, Denny Decastro and Kyle von Bredow described how to train a classifier to isolate mentions of specific kinds of people, places and things in free-text documents, a task known as Named Entity Recognition (NER). In general, tools such as Stanford CoreNLP can do a…
Enterprise Microservices with Python
By: Ken Yeatman, Principal Engineer, DigitalGlobe | Radiant
We love Python and the speed of development it enables. But we also love interoperability. At HumanGeo, we spend a great deal of time working with the latest technologies often in combination with easy-to-change, scripting languages like Python or Perl. These technologies enable us to deliver value to our customers…
By: Michael Whitby, Software Engineer, DigitalGlobe | Radiant
For the last several years, GeoWave has been an important tool for the US government, which leverages GeoWave to create a variety of solutions fueled by geospatial big data. But while our USG connection is stronger than ever and will continue to deepen, the drive for the GeoWave team now…
HumanGeo has grown with GitLab over the years. We started off with a meager instance built from source, and finally upgraded to the Omnibus installation last year. And today, GitLab CI has started to knock Jenkins off the throne as continuous integration tool of choice for some of our teams. During…