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How can we use stories to make sense of data?

Posted By Rose Winterton 09-05-2018 18:17
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I have been a huge fan of Ben Wellington for a few years now. If you are not familiar with him he is a data storyteller who uses open data to get people interested in data science. His maps of parking violations in New York helped change policy and reduced incorrect ticketing. Check out this video to ...

Can maps help visualize the invisible?

Posted By Rose Winterton 09-05-2018 17:01
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A recent map color coding air quality in India highlights a high presence of formaldehyde. A colorless gas that is very harmful to humans. These types of visualization are surely one of the best uses of location intelligence. To create a public awareness of something that otherwise is hard to see, explain ...

RE: What are the hidden risks of crowd sourced data?

Posted By Rose Winterton 09-04-2018 11:45
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Last week end users of applications with Open Street Map data were the first ones to spot hackers in the system. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45354311 This raises interesting questions about who is responsible for quality assurance and security. Crowd sourced data and even open source software ...

RE: Is location intelligence just for geeks?

Posted By Rose Winterton 09-04-2018 11:22
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Yesterday I was watching the Sherlock Holmes based TV show Elementary and to my surprise the story line featured a manipulation of flood plain boundaries within the mapping system. The story line was presented as something that involved difficult mathematics and the episode was titled The Geek Interpreter. ...

RE: Are there any video tutorials?

Posted By Rose Winterton 08-30-2018 16:07
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There is a short video showing use of Geocoding. The tutorial shows how HIVE UDFs (a SQL like language) can be used to run queries from within an OpenSource tool, Zeppelin notebook. Results are returned in table format.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-woWm8kAQag

Using Isochrones and Isodistances in your big data analysis

Posted By Rose Winterton 04-11-2018 21:24
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A blog I wrote around capabilities we have in our Spectrum Routing for Big Data product. https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/location-intelligence/case-studies/using-isochrones-and-isodistances-in-your-big-data-analysis.html

Seeing patterns in IoT data using GeoHash

Posted By Rose Winterton 04-11-2018 21:19
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A blog I wrote about one use case for GeoHash in aggregating call transaction data for telecommunications. GeoHash is implemented in our Spectrum Location Intelligence for Big Data product. https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/location-intelligence/case-studies/seeing-the-patterns-in-iot-data-using-geo ...

How well do data scientists or those involved in big data understand location intelligence?

Posted By Rose Winterton 04-11-2018 21:11
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A blog I wrote after the Strata data conference in New York last year. Although a lot of vendors could show a pretty picture of dots on a map, not so many of them understood the value that location brings to analyzing or operationalizing data.   https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/blog/location-in ...

How are data democratization and location intelligence linked?

Posted By Rose Winterton 04-11-2018 21:05
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Check out this blog I wrote after visiting Telco Data Analytics. Obviously telecommunications is one industry which is no stranger to large volumes of data and running a data driven enterprise. https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/blog/location-intelligence-helps-data-democratization.html

Spectrum Spatial For Big Data v3 release, NEW Spectrum GeoEnrichment Factory for Big Data

Posted By Rose Winterton 04-11-2018 21:01
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Building on the work done by PBs data team to build GEM datasets, weve introduced a new product called Spectrum™ Geo Enrichment Factory for Big Data. Clients can now take their own spatial data and align it to the Pitney Bowes Address Fabric for instant lookup of attribution. Use cases such as data monetization ...

Where can I find the latest documentation?

Posted By Rose Winterton 04-11-2018 20:46
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We actually have documentation in a couple of places while we are transitioning to a single support site. Both these links should take you to the latest documentation for Spectrum Spatial for Big Data. http://support.pb.com/help/hadoop/landingpage/index.html https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/supp ...