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Visualizing the future for generations

Probable Futures aims to drive climate literacy through its tools, stories, and resources. They needed a partner to help do that online.

Challenge

How can a non-profit without an engineering team build a cutting-edge digital platform that uses stories and data to drive climate literacy?

Outcome

Speedlane engineers built a custom CMS on top of WordPress that the team and Probable Futures can use to tell compelling stories in a beautiful format. The team also built a suite of interactive mapping tools that visitors can use to learn more about how climate affects them.

Impact

Probable Futures has helped tens of thousands of people learn more about our changing climate. Their website has become a leading resource for academics, nonprofits, and businesses. They’ve also entered into an ongoing partnership with Speedlane to continue to innovate new ways to tell climate stories.

Services

  • Front end development
  • Back end development
  • Data visualization
  • Artificial intelligence

Project tech stack

Front end

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Mapbox APIs

Back end

  • Node
  • Python scripts (import and process data)
  • Postgres Database
  • AWS (host services online)

 

The team at Speedlane built an interactive map to make Probable Futures climate data easier to understand. After looking at multiple options, the team built on top of Mapbox. The team also built advanced features. Users can upload and interact with their own data. There are APIs that users can request data about specific locations. They even built a way for users to download the maps and recreate them on their own accounts.

96%

Percentage of visitors who said they find the site useful

Over 114,000 users have spent an average of 14 minutes per visit on the site learning more about our changing climate.

“Speedlane has been an essential partner to Probable Futures. Integrated with our team, they built and maintain our map and data visualizations, website, API and developer resources, and a our more experimental projects such as an AI tool. I would recommend them as an engineering partner for any organization.”

Peter Croce, Product Lead at Probable Futures

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