Join the DataMade team! | DataMade Do you want to build mission-driven technology? Do you want to engineer fresh ideas about civic tech? Do you want to extract meaningful insights from data? We’re looking for a full-time, Chicago-based...

DataMade is hiring a junior developer!

$81K | 35h/week | good benefits | remote, but must be based in Chicagoland

Apply by Mar 27!

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Our Week at DjangoCon 2025 | DataMade We spent our fall retreat in Chicago, downtown at DjangoCon 2025. Here's how it went.

Developer Hayley Owens reflects on our staff retreat at DjangoCon 2025 in Chicago.

Here's the talk highlights, what we learned, and some emerging tools in the Django ecosystem we plan to use datamade.us/blog/django-...

Our Process: Building An Affordable Housing Lending Map | DataMade We partnered with the Community Investment Corporation to develop an easy way for them to visualize the affordable rental housing loans and grants they issue. This manifested in an internal map which ...

We partnered with the Community Investment Corporation to develop an easy way for them to visualize their affordable rental housing loans and grants.

Check out how we work with our partners in this post by Xavier Medrano

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Say hello to our redesigned website! datamade.us

Led by our very own @hancush.bsky.social. It shows off what we do so well!

Modernizing our mapping stack with Maplibre A significant reason for website failures is their reliance on external platforms, which frequently change or may even be shut down. However, a promising development in the past few years has been the...

Over the past few months we've been upgrading our maps to use Maplibre-gl, a free and open source vector mapping library.

We started by upgrading some of our most popular mapping projects, Chicago's Million Dollar Blocks and Second City Zoning.

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Our small team created a shared strategic vision–and you can, too! In April 2025, the DataMade team gathered in Chicago to discuss and define strategies for the first year in a new era for our company. In two days, partners, mid-level staff, and junior staff collecti...

DataMade held our first strategic planning session in several years last week. Here's how we structured it to involve ideas from everyone in the company.

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