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Robert Cheetham

Robert Cheetham is the founder and CEO of Azavea Inc., a software design and development firm that develops geospatial analysis tools and services for government, nonprofit, commercial and research organizations.

He founded the organization in May 2000.

Previously, Cheetham served as the Senior GIS Developer for the City of Philadelphia and as Crime Analyst for the Philadelphia Police Department. He serves on the advisory board of the Penn State Masters in GIS program and as an occasional lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, of which he is a 1997 graduate.

Cheetham is a resident of the Fairmount neighborhood and a 1991 graduate of the University of Michigan.

Technically Philly coverage:

OpenAccessPhilly forum brings civic technology leaders together (October 31, 2011)

Stephanie Alarcon discusses open gov and OpenDataPhilly at Chaos Communication Camp in Berlin (September 19, 2011)

OpenDataRace: contest from OpenDataPhilly to partner city data and nonprofits (September 14, 2011)

License to Inspect: two years later, City of Philadelphia L&I API will drive PlanPhilly transparency app (September 12, 2011)

Fix Philly Districts: city redistricting awareness campaign from WHYY, Daily News, Azavea [AUDIO] (August 3, 2011)

OpenDataPhilly.org source code released (June 30, 2011)

Augmented Reality by PhillyHistory.org and Azavea launches on iPhone, Android (June 8, 2011)

DATA CRUNCHED: All that’s needed to jump start an open data movement is a city government that doesn’t stand in the way (April 25, 2011)

Predicting future crimes in Philadelphia (April 13, 2011)

OpenDataPhilly.org: city data catalog to launch April 25 during Philly Tech Week (March 23, 2011)

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