The Critical Role of Spatial Data in Today's Data Ecosystem
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The document discusses the transformative potential of spatial data in various industries, highlighting its critical role in decision-making and operational efficiency. It provides examples from healthcare, retail, agriculture, and public safety, illustrating how organizations can leverage spatial data to enhance their services and improve outcomes. Key insights include the automation of data workflows and real-time decision-making capabilities made possible through integrated spatial data systems.
The Critical Role of Spatial Data in Today's Data Ecosystem
- 1. Don’t Just Optimize, Transform The Critical Role of Spatial Data in Today's Data Ecosystem
- 2. Sara Mak Brian Pont VP, Customer Success Technical Support Specialist Meet our Team
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- 5. Agenda 1 Spatial, the Missing Piece 2 Spatial Data in Action 3 Resources & Next Steps 4 Q&A Agenda
- 6. Poll: What’s your understanding of the use of spatial data in your organization?
- 7. Think about the last time you went on a trip or vacation. How many aspects of getting to your destination were seamlessly simplified by technology?
- 8. Air Travel: Digital Transformation Compared to 30Years Ago: ● Visit or call a travel agency for a paper ticket ● Seat selection was not an option or done at counter ● Flight prices were relatively static ● Physical check in at airport and paper boarding pass ● Flight status was by phone call or at airport
- 9. What about today? How many times today were things seamlessly simplified by technology?
- 11. What if I told you that all of that seamless technology was made possible by Spatial Data! Spatial Data is everywhere!* ● Everyone is someplace all the time. ● Everything is someplace all of the time. ● Everything happens somewhere. ● Location, location, location. *pun intended
- 12. The world we live in is Spatial. How many ways do you use spatial without even thinking about it?
- 13. Spatial data is used for everything from saving lives to finding you a cup of coffee. It creates experiences that exist only in the digital world, and improves experiences in the real world.
- 14. Yet, many organizations don’t use spatial when making decisions.
- 16. Spatial Data is not a component but the catalyst to take you from digital optimization to digital transformation. ● With spatial data you see new relationships and gain location powered insights to make better decisions. ● Without spatial data you miss market opportunities, allocate resources poorly, and fall behind your competitors.
- 17. Leveraging Spatial Data for Actionable Location Intelligence Retail & Customer Segmentation ● DO: Track sales and manage inventory. ● DT: Analyze foot traffic, optimize store layout, provide in store personal experiences. Healthcare & Epidemiology ● DO: Electronic Health Records (EHR) to digitize patient records. ● DT: Real-time location to track equipment, staff, and patients, significantly reduce wait times, improve asset utilization, and enhance patient care. ● DT: Location is key to greater understanding of outbreaks. Industries Discovering the Advantage of Spatial
- 18. Leveraging Spatial Data for Actionable Location Intelligence Food Production & Precision Agriculture ● DO: Track crop yields and manage schedules. ● DT: With precision agriculture - optimize irrigation, and fertilization based on soil conditions, weather forecasts, and crop health data, leading to increased yields and sustainability at lower costs. Transportation & Optimized Logistics ● DO: Route planning and shipment tracking. ● DT: Real-time route optimization based on traffic conditions, weather, and other variables, reducing fuel costs, improving delivery times, and enhancing service quality. Industries Discovering the Advantage of Spatial
- 19. Common Patterns of Using Spatial Data ● Geocoding: Turning "123 Main St" into a point on a map. ● Spatial Join: Finding all customers living within 10 miles of a store. ● Spatial Selection: Selecting all houses within a flood zone. ● Data Enrichment: Adding neighborhood income data to a list of addresses. The Basics of Spatial Data
- 20. The Rise of Spatial Data Spatial Data is embraced by more and more companies…
- 21. Poll: What’s the biggest hurdle your organization faces in using spatial data?
- 23. BlueDot: Disease Surveillance BlueDot Inc. creates products that enable public health agencies, hospital authorities, and businesses to track, contextualize, and anticipate infectious disease risks. The company was founded by a physician motivated by his front line experience with SARS outbreak back in 2003. The company gained global recognition when it detected COVID-19, nearly a week before the World Health Organization.
- 24. The Challenge Goal: Build an early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks that depended on an array of different spatial and non-spatial data sets. Challenge: Many different spatial data formats & different datasets needed to be ingested and blended together to generate insights, power our products. Spatial data needed to be continually ingested as they were updated at the source.
- 25. The Solution: Safe Software’s FME Leveraged FME’s no-code solution to automate complex geoprocessing jobs, integrate data through on premise, and cloud databases (AWS and Azure). Easily scale workflows when processing demand grew. With Spatial Data: Insured new data integrated aligned with boundary files, with 200+ infectious diseases around the world being monitored daily.
- 26. One platform, two technologies FME Form FME Flow Build and run data workflows Automate data workflows FME Flow Hosted Safe Software managed instance fme.safe.com/platform FME Enterprise Integration Platform Safe & FME
- 27. Their Modern Data Stack in Action Data Web scraping, Air travel itineraries and schedules, disease extent maps, raster imagery, climate data, government health data, & more Integrate & Transform FME Flow and AI are used to ingest, transform, and analyze data Delivery Centralized data in a data Lake on AWS and Relational Database Service (RDS) Analysis Disease surveillance insights and predictive intelligence made available through APIs and custom web application
- 28. Results: Key insights into disease patterns and their potential impacts ● Allowed a small data team to curtail data for products and custom analysis ● Drastically reduced time in data ingestion and transformation ● Automated repetitive processes, freeing resources for critical tasks. ● Analytic insights pertaining to the spread of the virus
- 29. The HALO Trust For over thirty years, The HALO Trust has been leading efforts to protect and save lives and restore communities and livelihoods of those threatened by the deadly debris of war.
- 30. Their Project Goal Survey and clear landmines and unexploded ordnance. Solution Use FME to automate and streamline the flow of open source data across platforms and deliver interactive web maps to stakeholders.
- 31. Their Modern Data Stack Data Sourced from social media and data aggregators such as: Twitter, Telegram and LiveAUMap, plus others. Integrate & Transform Automatically pulling data every 2 hours via APIs. Storage PostgreSQL database stores the data and connects it to dynamic web map in ArcGIS Enterprise. Analysis Web maps offer stakeholders with the latest information about where threats, contamination, and munitions are located inside Ukraine.
- 32. Data Spotlight Live Universal Awareness Map: News aggregation site and API
- 33. Results ● Eliminated manual and duplicate work with automated data workflows. ● Able to keep operational databases up-to-date without human intervention and error. ● Enable the organization to deliver on its mission of protecting lives and restoring communities. Learn more: http://fme.ly/HALO “FME is an intuitive, powerful, and time-saving tool to have in our toolbox. We just set it up, and voila! It’s working.” - Luan Jaupi, Head of Information Management, The HALO Trust
- 34. Fortis BC: Navigating a Flammable Frontier FortisBC stands as a major utility provider in British Columbia, with a sprawling service area of 240,000 km², facing an escalating wildfire challenge.
- 35. The Escalating Wildfire Challenge ● Wildfire Trends in BC: Increased frequency, intensity, longer seasons, larger burn areas, and extreme fire behavior, with climate models predicting worsened conditions. ● Without Spatial Data: Response efforts are reactive, manual data gathering is slow, risk assessment is delayed, and real-time decision-making is hindered.
- 36. Their Modern Data Stack in Action Data Integrated live BC Wildfire Service Map with Internal Asset Database. Integrate & Transform Automated risk assessment and situational awareness map creation. Delivery Real-time notifications and data availability across various systems for diverse user communities. Analysis Enabled Operation Management to monitor the current state of wildfires and make informed decisions.
- 37. Results: A Transformative Impact ● Transitioned from manual to automated data processes. ● Drastically reduced time in data gathering and analysis. ● Automated repetitive processes, freeing resources for critical tasks. ● Enhanced decision-making, leading to improved safety and operational efficiency. “In an emergency, we don’t want our Operations Managers to spend time making reports” - Piet Nooij, Production Process Manager, FortisBC
- 38. Key Takeaways: ● Creatively sourcing and utilizing Data including Open Data and APIs ● Automating the flow of data throughout the modern data stack ● Empowering collaboration by stakeholders via common types of output like PDF ● Utilizing spatial data for decision making and enrichment
- 39. Poll: Which of the following outcomes are you hoping to achieve by integrating spatial data? (Select top 1-2)
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