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RE: What about the Product Documentation?

Posted By Andrew Bell 09-04-2019 03:57
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We will certainly add that link in. Plus we should have links included to the SDM and for Map Explorer ------------------------------ Andy Bell Director Global Data Product Management Pitney Bowes Software & Data Leeds, UK ------------------------------

RE: Are you a Helpful Data Partner?

Posted By Andrew Bell 09-02-2019 05:55
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A really important topic, and to ensure you have a really good communication channel with your data partners too so when you need to have an honest conversation with them you can. This ties in well with my post of product documentation, supporting material and metadata is critical for any users ability ...

What about the Product Documentation?

Posted By Andrew Bell 09-02-2019 05:47
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Good supporting documentation is critical for data, it should contain all important metadata and context to help an end user get full value from the data product they are using. Product documentation should contain some essential features.   What the product name is Document and product ...

RE: Whats your favorite data attribute?

Posted By Andrew Bell 08-01-2019 07:02
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Good note Warren, seems the days of good data indexing have been left behind. ------------------------------ Andy Bell Director Global Data Product Management Pitney Bowes Software & Data Leeds, UK ------------------------------

RE: The wonderful world of Points of Interest (POI)

Posted By Andrew Bell 07-16-2019 03:43
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You are right Tom, it is a never ending project to maintain POI. We used to have a phrase in the UK, "It's like painting the Forth Bridge". The Forth Bridge is a famous POI just north of Edinburgh and it was always being painted. The good news is they solved that problem a few years ago, if they can ...

RE: It's all in the name

Posted By Andrew Bell 07-03-2019 12:20
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Chris, I wonder if Boring Maryland is full of Civil Engineers? Always loved the phone book entry, Civil Engineers see Boring. There is literally Nothing between Phoenix and Las Vegas, good name. ------------------------------ Andy Bell Director Global Data Product Management Pitney Bowes Software ...

It's all in the name

Posted By Andrew Bell 07-02-2019 06:48
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As we approach the 4th July and our American colleagues celebrate their independence from the UK I was reflecting on the impact the UK had on US geography. One of the the most prominent is the names of their Towns and Cities, Boston, Plymouth, Manchester, Lincoln. There are many examples. However they ...

The wonderful world of Points of Interest (POI)

Posted By Andrew Bell 06-28-2019 04:22
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Points of Interest (POI) are being applied to address so many problems it's hard to keep track of them all. I feel like I learn a new one every time I meet clients – surprising things we've never thought about. While site selection (where to put my store or other facility) is one of the stalwart applications, ...

RE: Whats your favorite data attribute?

Posted By Andrew Bell 06-16-2019 12:13
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Great discussion. I can't help but love the category level in our Geodmographics Psyte and CAMEO. Not just because I had a hand in building them but because I just like categorising places and making it easy for clients to understand the people that live in a place. ------------------------------ ...

What's he doing there?

Posted By Andrew Bell 06-13-2019 14:36
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My recent blog on the value of Location Intelligence data on Linkedin. ------------------------------ Andy Bell Director Global Data Product Management Pitney Bowes Software & Data Leeds, UK ------------------------------

How are Postcode boundaries created?

Posted By Andrew Bell 05-24-2019 04:06
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This is the second part to my discussion on postcodes. Postcode boundaries are based on the street address delivery points of the national post offices which represent the postal delivery areas of the postal services. The postal systems are designed to assist the national postal services to deliver ...

RE: What do you do with old data?

Posted By Andrew Bell 05-20-2019 14:15
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One of the challenges of time series analysis like this is consistency in data. You have to know about consistency in data capture, consistency in sources, methodologies, processing etc etc. Any changes in these can impact the comparison you make across historic data. ------------------------------ ...

What is a Postcode Boundary?

Posted By Andrew Bell 05-19-2019 09:44
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I have had lots of conversations with end users where I realised I needed to go back to basics to help them understand what a postcode boundary really is, and that is location analysts we use them for a different purpose than what they were created for. I decided to out together an overview. Postcode ...

RE: US Privacy Legislation - What's Next?

Posted By Andrew Bell 05-09-2019 06:31
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An important subject Dylan. I think with GDPR getting embedded in Europe and a number of high profile data stories in the media I think we can only expect more legislation in regard to data privacy. ------------------------------ Andy Bell Director Global Data Product Management Pitney Bowes Software ...

RE: Data Monetization

Posted By Andrew Bell 05-09-2019 06:28
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A good list Jeff. I would add, can you maintain the data and are there any reasons the source may discontinue. The first that I always look at is usage rights, what are you allowed to do and not do, this fundamentally shapes any data monetization project. ------------------------------ Andy ...

RE: Try Data for FREE!

Posted By Andrew Bell 04-29-2019 04:24
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Hi Dan, For samples outside the standard areas in the software and data marketplace we supply samples on a request basis, covered by our standard evaluation agreement. India has some interesting challenges in terms of the detail in comparison to the countries such as the US and UK. Having said that ...

RE: Parcels, parcels, parcels

Posted By Andrew Bell 04-16-2019 04:09
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Absolutely right, attribution is key to really get value from land parcel data. ------------------------------ Andy Bell Director Global Data Product Management Pitney Bowes Software & Data Leeds, UK ------------------------------

Data Interoperability

Posted By Andrew Bell 04-01-2019 04:14
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Interoperability, a word, my colleagues will confirm, I can barely say let alone spell, has become a central tenant of our data strategy. Primarily about connecting and linking our breadth of global data assets to ensure our end users have a much better client experience using our data, getting to answers ...