Big Data and GIS

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...