Jake's Takes

Infrequent posts with tips, tools, and thoughts

A Policy by Any Other Name

Unconventional Industrial Policy in the US Residential Solar Industry

12 min read · October 8, 2023

2023
Speeding up spatial operations in R

Combining `sf` and `data.table` libraries to batch process spatial data in R

7 min read · July 15, 2022

2022
Calculating driving distances using Open Source Routing Machine

A guide to running Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) on AWS

18 min read · June 1, 2022

2022
Leveraging behavioral science to close the flood insurance gap

Wharton ESG Initiative blog post

1 min read · March 30, 2020

2020
Flood insurance in the US: Lessons from FEMA's recent data release (part 2)

Wharton ESG Initiative blog post

1 min read · January 22, 2020

2020