Polis will host the SmartEdge presentation,”Turning Big Data into Actionable Information,” on August 12 from 12:30-3:00 p.m. in the Ambassador Meeting Room at Sleep Inn & Suites and Conference Center, 1244 W. 16th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Check-in will be held at 12:30, with the program beginning at 1:00 p.m. Beverages will be provided.
The August program features Mansour Raad with Esri. He will briefly review tools that allow users to aggregate at spatial, temporal and attribute levels billions of records to be analyzed and visualized in non-traditional way. In addition, Raad will demonstrate the application, GeoStatistics, to turn Big Data into actionable information in the space of Smart Cities, IoT, Telematics, Automotive, Insurance, Health Care, Advertisement and Telco.
Raad notes, “Some say that Big Data is about Volume, Velocity, Variety. I say it is more about ‘when the traditional means are failing you.’ You know you are in a Big Data realm when the data is not very large, not coming at you very fast and is structured, but the window of opportunity to respond to it with intelligence requires non-traditional means.” He points out, “Today, most of this Big Data comes attached with a specific location in the form of geographical coordinates or implicitly in the form of an internet address or a tweet e.g. ‘I’m eating a Chicago style pizza in downtown Boston.’”
With over 25 years of experience in the IT/GIS field, Raad is the lead Big Data Subject Matter Expert at Esri as a Cloudera certified Hadoop developer and HBase specialist. In this role, he often assists commercial and government customers in implementing Big Data geospatial solutions. He has performed as team lead in architecting and implementing product solutions for ArcGIS. Raad earned a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and frequently blogs on Big Data topics and examples of Geospatial implementations at https://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The SmartEdge presentations are designed to share and discuss ideas and issues and/or expose the audience to solution and technologies pertaining to smart cities and their linkage to sustainability and resilience, policy and governance, and the overall well-being of communities.
SmartEdge guest speakers are thinkers, idea-generators, and implementers of smart city initiatives from industrial, research, governmental, and community entities. The series is geared for those with interest in any of the issues surrounding the concept of the smart city, whether technologic, economic, policy, service, or impact-wise.
Series presentations are expected to cover one or more of the following topics:
- Issues and concerns related to the data infrastructure underpinning smart city solution (e.g. big data, standards, data interoperability, data privacy, security)
- Capability of technologies (state-of-the-art, trends, integration, service scales, implementation issues, e.g.)
- Economics of implementation (cost of infrastructure and technology, return of investment, e.g.)
- Governance of the systems and adaptability to the changing demands of citizens, business, and political leadership
- Technical demos
- Any other topics that are deemed relative