Real maps, real data, real people who needed someone to notice. New ones posted here roughly every week.
This started as a portfolio for GIS Analyst job applications. That's changed. It's now a running record of real mapping projects, posted here as I finish them, roughly every week or two.
Every project uses real data and answers a real question, whether that's where mental health care is hardest to reach in Illinois, how a flood response actually unfolded in Nepal, or how the borders of North America shifted over five centuries. Civic projects tend to be about people who get overlooked. Personal ones are just things I find genuinely interesting.
New posts show up here first, with the full archive on the Blog page.
Replicating a 2025 PLOS One geographically weighted regression study on real, more recent Chicago crime data, to show where the real predictors of crime strengthen, weaken, or reverse across the city.
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A full rebuild of an early AI-assisted project running on fake mock data, replaced with real Pew Research figures, real OpenStreetMap Heathen sites, and Iceland's real government-tracked Ásatrú growth.
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Replicating a April 2026 PLOS ONE street-network study on Chicago for the first time, to find which neighborhoods have real services nearby AND a connected street grid, and which have only one or neither.
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Ten of the most endangered species in the U.S., each mapped with its own real, best-available metric, not one uniform number forced onto all of them.
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A single executive order renamed a Great Lake for U.S. Google Maps users. A real toggle map showing what changed, and why OpenStreetMap doesn't work that way.
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The real HOT/NAXA volunteer mapping response to the August 2026 Rasuwa flood in Nepal, alongside cloud-masked before/after satellite imagery and the real, still-rising toll.
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