A big THANKS to all who came out to our booth at the O’Reilly Strata: Making Data Work conference in Santa Clara last week. We were so glad to meet each and every one of you! With over 1400 attendees, O’Reilly’s first Strata conference about turning data into decisions featured an impressive mix of people, tools and technologies key to making data work — and was a great success! Check out their site for highlights from the show and see below for a few of Urban Mapping’s own highlights. Looking forward to Strata in New York later this year and hope to see you there!
Urban Mapping’s CEO, Ian White, talks with O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum on the burgeoning business of data before taking stage on the Data Marketplaces panel.
Ian White joins Tableau Software’s Jock Mackinlay on Justin TV’s SiliconANGLE to talk about Urban Mapping’s geospatial technology, data visualization and the Urban Mapping-Tableau partnership. “One man’s metadata is another man’s data.” (Scroll to 1:34:00.)
Favorite sessions for the Urban Mapping team:
What Kind of Data do Governments Have? Insightful discussion on how machine applications based on public data can be misleading, hence the importance the human plays in manipulating and interpreting data to really derive meaning. We have a data team at Urban Mapping who reviews all data that comes into our catalog!
Data Journalism: Applied Interfaces Some very cool data visualization examples here from the NY Times, ReadWriteWeb and the Guarding that took complex data and made it easy to explore and understand.
Apache Cassandra in Action and MAD Skills: A Magnetic, Agile and Deep Approach to Scalable Analytics The devs enjoyed a little hands on time with DataStax’s Jonathan Ellis.
And finally in case you missed it previously, here is Ian talking with O’Reilly’s Edd Dumbill in preparation for Strata about data marketplaces, web mapping and delivering data as a service. Of particular interest is Ian’s reference to the “dying craft of data on discs.”
