Learn Geospatial and Environmental APIs with hands-on projects

You know how there are satellites flying above the Earth taking millions of pictures and collecting data? These projects show you how to actually use those pictures and data to solve real-world problems.

Did you know that in 2023 alone, natural disasters cost global businesses over $380 billion? Harnessing environmental data is key to predicting and preventing disruptions caused by these disasters. Explore these guided projects to learn how to use geospatial APIs to work with environmental data. By completing these projects you will learn how to:

Greenhouse gas emissions impact the health of people and the planet itself. Many jurisdictions have now made emissions reporting mandatory in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint. What if you had the skills to help your organization calculate and reduce your emissions? What if you could be a part of the solution instead of sitting on the sidelines?

These guided projects let you calculate your internal and supply chain emissions and analyze your impact. You can gather, organize, and analyze data across all kinds of business activities, such as heating usage, refrigeration leaks, and fleet fuel consumption. More and more, “clean” companies are successful companies, and you’ll gain the skills to help any organization analyze and reduce their emissions.

Learn how to:

We all talk about the weather. Rain or shine, windy or calm, we all guess what it’s going to be like today, and we’re wrong as often as we’re right. What we need is data, and analysis, and understanding, a way to more accurately predict weather trends so we don’t have to rely on, well, guesses. And that’s where historical weather APIs come in.

This set of guided projects gives you historical weather context using APIs that provide gridded currents, agriculture, energy, and summarized forecast data. You’ll gain the skills to reliably predict future business outcomes and learn how to use real data to plan your resource allocation, schedules, and hiring. Let’s face it: if you want to work in a business that depends on the weather, you better not be relying on your intuition, or your achy knee.

Learn how to: