I wanted to revisit my post from a couple of weeks ago on parallel processing using a desktop computer. As I began introducing these...

Did you know that you can perform GIS analysis using parallel processing on a desktop PC? For years now, computers have had multicore...

Technical and Detailed. Great teacher explanation. Really good! Practical advice, in-depth enough to really learn something useful (most...

I wanted to revisit the taxi data example that I previously blogged about.  I had a 6GB file of 16 million taxi pickup locations and 260...

Well folks, it’s happening. I’m about to take one of my most adventurist steps into these training classes yet. With the release of...

When you were in Statistics 101, and the Professor said ok, we are now going to learn about the Central Limit Theorem, did you tune out?...

Continuing my series on big data geoanalytics, I wanted to show how to bring in large data sets so that we can start working with them....

In my last video, I gave a short of mile-high view of how SQL can be used for big data geoanalytics.  I want to dive a little deeper, and...

I’m getting ready to create a course in big data analytics with GIS.  I have lots of ideas as to what to do, but one thing I know is that...

Once again, I am continuing my role as a mentor in a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduate program....

My good friend Stuart Hamilton gave me a fun conundrum to try out. He has a file of province boundaries (400 areas) and lidar derived...