Hodges Ward Elliott, a real estate company, was facing a significant challenge in creating data-driven maps, a fundamental aspect of their daily operations. The process was labor-intensive and time-consuming, often taking the graphics department 3-4 days to produce a single map. The introduction of the data science team and the use of open-source tools like Leaflet improved the situation, but it still took four hours to create a high-quality map. The company was looking for a solution that could further streamline this process, reduce the time taken, and make it easier to create and iterate on these maps.
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