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High risk businesses thrive from low risk data

Posted By Bryan Bonack 11-04-2019 11:53
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Have you ever looked at your home or auto policy and wondered what contributes to the premium staring back at you? Chances are you have, and chances are you're left with a lot of questions. The obscurity is intentional because the answer is complex. The long and short of it: An array of variables ...

What is weather data's legacy in the insurance market?

Posted By Bryan Bonack 10-02-2019 23:31
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While visiting our partners at Baron Weather yesterday, I was asked a really good question: "How has weather data been used in the insurance industry in the past and present, and how do you think it will be used in the future?"​ What came out was long and complicated, so I decided to write about ...

How Can Smart Data Enrichment Tailor Your EOV Use?

Posted By Bryan Bonack 06-13-2019 14:50
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My favorite use case is guiding an online buyer towards the appropriate product/solution fit based on a pre-populated user profile. What's your favorite use case? ------------------------------ Bryan Bonack Data Product Manager Pitney Bowes Boulder, CO ------------------------------

Turning Weather Adversity into Opportunity

Posted By Bryan Bonack 06-07-2019 20:18
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In an expanding global economy, the world has never been more diverse yet more connected, and if there is one thing all 7.5B people have in common, it's the fact that we're all influenced by something totally out of our control – Mother Nature. Whether through catastrophic disasters or daily patterns, ...

RE: Flood, Fraud, and FEMA

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-17-2019 13:15
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Jeff, No doubt - we are researching how to provide elevation profiles (8+ unique measurements) for every building and parcel polygon across the U.S. This would not only tell you how likely a property is to experience flooding based on its elevation, but also on which side of the house, which part ...

RE: Flood, Fraud, and FEMA

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-17-2019 12:58
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Chris, That is a possible resolution. If we look at vintage releases of Parcel boundaries and identify centroid elevation before FEMA map changes (we would also need to look for vintage releases of FEMA flood zones), we could ball park when the fraud took place and by how much. ------------------------------ ...

Flood, Fraud, and FEMA

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-16-2019 21:55
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The article embedded below absolutely floored me. Over the past 5 years, FEMA has allowed 150,000 map changes. That fact alone reflects how inaccurate FEMA data must be, but even worse, many of these requests have been made by developers who knowingly built houses on soil mounds inside of flood zones. ...

What is "Programmatic" and how does location fit in?

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-08-2019 16:25
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As a first time attendee of the Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco, I could have used a glossary defining all of the industry acronyms thrown my way. One week later, and I'm guilty of using the same newly learned jargon to describe the experience to my colleagues. It's funny how we use big ...

RE: Test Your Population Data Knowledge

Posted By Bryan Bonack 03-30-2019 09:59
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Humble brag: 58 on metros and 59 on states ------------------------------ Bryan Bonack PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE, INC Shelton CT ------------------------------

RE: Commercial Geofences - Where Quantity Meets Quality

Posted By Bryan Bonack 03-09-2019 15:21
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Hi Steve, The best way to think about how Commercial Geofences differentiates from POIs is that Commercial Geofences are polygons and POIs are points. Commercial Geofences polygons reflect the parcel or building of a particular POI while a POI is just a point that usually falls on the center of the ...

Dynamic Weather Data for Real-Time Analytics

Posted By Bryan Bonack 02-04-2019 22:57
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Have you ever viewed a weather service on a web map, perhaps a NOAA or NWS stream, and wished it were data? Did you try to figure out what the impact of the impending storm might look like at specific locations by "eye-balling" the image on the screen? Ya... I've done that too, but now I don't have to ...

Capitalizing on 5G

Posted By Bryan Bonack 02-04-2019 14:46
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The foundations for fifth generation (5G) mobile data networks are under construction, and services will be available in limited markets this year, while widespread availability is forecasted for 2020. In much the same way that fiber networks transformed the internet experience for broadband users, mobile ...

Commercial Geofences - Where Quantity Meets Quality

Posted By Bryan Bonack 02-04-2019 14:10
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"Geofences" - otherwise known as the digital boundaries that support location based marketing campaigns, can be found everywhere and come in all shapes, sizes, and formats. The critical elements of a usable geofence are 1.) Accuracy and 2.) Context. In other words, the boundary needs to precisely capture ...

RE: Some GIS professionals are struggling with leadership that hasn’t yet seen the light (or maybe seen the map). What advice would you give them in terms of making the case for expanded use of spatial analytics?

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-09-2018 16:02
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Use the numbers behind the data to provide concrete facts. Convey how leveraging a GIS strategy influences? KPIs supported by analytics that prove this. When possible, use financial values associated with data like address points to show total exposure, market potential, client base, etc. - whatever ...

RE: How is raster data being used to support new use cases? Are GIS pros confident in knowing how raster data can be analyzed? Let's hear from the audience as well as or experts!

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-09-2018 15:56
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We are also in the midst of translating pictures and raster imagery from both forecasted and real-time weather events into vector data with associated values related to the event. This will support analyses across insurance and finance for understanding book of business exposure immediately before, during, ...

RE: How is raster data being used to support new use cases? Are GIS pros confident in knowing how raster data can be analyzed? Let's hear from the audience as well as or experts!

Posted By Bryan Bonack 05-09-2018 15:44
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Geographic risk modelling relies on raster data more than ever before as many perils like flood rely heavily on LiDar imagery to inform models. GIS Pros understand that raster data can be interacted with in similar ways as vector data, but there is a learning curve for new GIS users and generalized business ...