Big Data and GIS

Aug 12, 20192 min read

Big Data Geo-Analytics with Postgres workshop Evaluation

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

Oct 16, 20185 min read

Big Data Results

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...

Jan 14, 20181 min read

Big data analytics with GIS – the CSULB pilot

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...

Dec 21, 20171 min read

Work smarter – not larger

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?...

Nov 30, 20171 min read

Big Data GeoAnalytics – adding data

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....

Nov 21, 20171 min read

Big Data GeoAnalytics – Turning Points to Lines

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...

Nov 20, 20171 min read

Big data geo-analytics with SQL

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...

Jun 29, 20162 min read

Parallel Processing with QGIS

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

Jul 7, 20152 min read

When More is Less…. lessons from processing large data files

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...