100 billion Points Every Day

100 billion Points Every Day

Author: MapScaping August 16, 2023 Duration: 49:07
100 billion Points Every Day 100 billion is a very large number, let's say that I gave you a spreadsheet with 100 billion rows in it, each row consisted of five columns Latitude, Longitude, Device ID, A Timestamp, and a column telling the name of the data provider What would you do with that?  How would you clean it? Make sense of it? Extract value from it? What would people use it for? And how would you do this in a way that could be systematized? FourSquare does this every day with the help of something they call a movement engine. To help understand more about how they do this I have invited Gabriel Durkin the director of data science on the podcast. This is the last in a series of episodes I have worked on together with FourSquare and I have to say it's been really enjoyable working with them.  If you are interested in hearing some of the previous episodes just check out the links below!   From Pixels To Patterns AI In Spatial Analysis https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-pixels-to-patterns-ai-in-spatial-analysis/ Big Data In The Browser https://mapscaping.com/podcast/big-data-in-the-browser/ Spatial Knowledge Graphs https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-knowledge-graphs/ Designing For Location Privacy https://mapscaping.com/podcast/designing-for-location-privacy/ All Of The Places In The World https://mapscaping.com/podcast/all-of-the-places-in-the-world/ Geospatial Jobs   There are a few new jobs on our Job Board! The most interesting one is the role of Social Media Manager at Felt - United States (Remote)  ( If you want to apply for this one, it might be a good idea to listen to this episode first ;)  https://mapscaping.com/podcast/felt-upload-anything/ ) See more at https://mapscaping.com/jobs/   As a bonus for reading all the way to the end :)    If you are looking for free terrain data for anywhere in the world you might find this useful  https://github.com/openterrain/openterrain/wiki/Terrain-Data Some more episodes you might enjoy   ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science  QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography Location Intelligence, Mapping

The MapScaping Podcast delves into the intricate world where geography meets data. This isn't about static paper maps, but the dynamic, digital systems that help us understand our planet. Each conversation focuses on the practical and the visionary within GIS, geospatial technology, remote sensing, and earth observation. You'll hear directly from the cartographers, data scientists, software developers, and analysts who are building the tools and interpreting the information that defines modern digital geography. The discussions explore how satellite imagery is used, how location intelligence solves complex problems, and where the technology is headed next. For professionals, students, or anyone fascinated by how we chart and comprehend our world, this podcast offers a grounded look at a field that is constantly redrawing its own boundaries. Tune in to The MapScaping Podcast for insights that are as much about the people and ideas shaping this space as they are about the technology itself. It's a consistent source for those who think spatially, providing depth and context that goes beyond the software interface. Listen to find out how the hidden structures of geospatial data influence everything from urban planning and environmental conservation to business logistics and everyday apps.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
Podcast Episodes
Using Lasers To Talk To Satellites [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:51
How do we get data from a satellite down to Earth? How do we task a satellite? Today the answer is likely to be via radios and a system of downlink sites or ground stations. As the satellites pass overhead or within “lin…
From Pixels to Patterns: AI in Spatial Analysis [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:50
There is a general understanding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to extract meaning from all the data we are collecting without using AI. But what is AI, and how did we end up in a situation where it is identi…
pygeoapi - A Python Geospatial Server [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:03
PYGEOAPI is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards ... which might be really useful if you are thinking about upgrading from the first-generation OGC standards to the second-generation OGC stand…
Big Data In The Browser [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:17
So why would anyone want to put alot of data into a browser? Well, for a lot of the same reasons that edge computing and distributed computing have become so popular. You get the data a lot closer to the user and you don…
Rasters In A Database? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:21
Sounds like a great idea right? In this episode, Paul Ramsey explains why you shouldn't ... unless you want to ... and how you can ... if you have to. You can find Paul's blog here: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/about So…
Spatial Knowledge Graphs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:04
A knowledge graph is a network of relationships between real work entities and in this episode, you will learn how and why knowledge graphs might be a better choice than spatial joins! Further listening! The H3 Indexing…
ChatGPT and Large Language Models [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:13
I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT by now so the hope of this episode is to give you some more context about what is it built on and how it works. To do that I invited Daniel Whitneck back on the podcast You can connect…
Computer Vision and GeoAI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:58
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers and systems to derive meaningful information from digital images. You might think that this is exactly what we are doing in earth observat…
Designing for Location Privacy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:18
Data is what data does - more about that later on ;) This episode focuses on designing for privacy, how do we create value from location data without sacrificing personal privacy? Well, you might start by adhering to the…
Hyperspectral vs Multispectral [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:46
When comparing multispectral and hyperspectral data it is not simply a case of “more data more better”! With hyperspectral you have “The curse of Dimensionality” but you also get more flexibility to pick exactly what ban…