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Will You Join the Cloud GIS Revolution?

Will You Join the GIS Revolution?

Cloud computing has revolutionized the ICT landscape and is a catalyst for digital transformation. But the adoption of Cloud GIS has been slow and GIS deployments on desktops and enterprise servers remain the norm. Will this change with the advent of big data analytics, IoT and AI?

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18 Oct 2018 Willy Simons 1 Comment Cloud Computing, Geospatial Technology ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online, cloud GIS

What Constitutes Geospatial Technology in 2018?

What Constitutes Geospatial Technology in 2018?

The GeoBuiz 2018 Report presents a bright outlook for the geospatial industry and predicts a larger role for it in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Geospatial is more aligned with ICT and Cloud, IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain are key technology drivers.

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26 Jul 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology geospatial, GIS, GNSS, GPS, remote sensing

Learning Remote Sensing with ArcGIS Pro

Learning Remote Sensing with ArcGIS Pro

The remote sensing industry is growing exponentially with the proliferation of satellites, drones, big data analytics, and AR/VR as key drivers. Increasingly GIS experts and data analysts are expected to have relevant knowledge and skills in image processing and analysis.

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12 Jul 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS Pro, imagery, Landsat, remote sensing

7 Advantages and Disadvantages of a Startup

7 Advantages and Disadvantages of a Startup

Leaving the CEO position at an established company for a startup business felt like a setback. I soon realized that working for a startup has advantages and wrote about them in an earlier article. For a balanced view, I added the disadvantages that I have encountered.

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5 Jul 2018 Willy Simons 1 Comment Digital Transformation business, innovation, startup

Get Started with the ArcGIS Lesson Gallery

Get Started with the ArcGIS Lesson Gallery

The term GIS is losing some of its appeal to the buzz of geospatial, location intelligence, and spatial data science. Yet the popularity of these offshoots has increased the demand for GIS skills and capabilities, More people are becoming interested in learning GIS and the ArcGIS Lesson Gallery is an excellent school.

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21 Jun 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS Pro, cartography, GIS, learning

Data Science Track of the Microsoft Professional Program

Data Science Track of the Microsoft Professional Program

In May 2018, I received my Microsoft Professional Program Data Science Certificate. I thoroughly enjoyed going through the different units and now look forward to putting my new-found skills as a data scientist into practice. Allow me to share my experience, especially with those who want to follow my footsteps.

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28 May 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Data Science Azure ML, Excel, Microsoft, Power BI, Python

Interactive and Dynamic Reports with Power BI

Interactive and Dynamic Reports with Power BI

In two earlier articles on Power BI I showed how to connect to Google Analytics and how to create an ArcGIS Map visualization. I have now gone through the course Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI, and will give you access to some of the interactive reports that I have built.

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8 Feb 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Data Science county, dataviz, Kenya, Power BI

Having Fun with Descriptive Statistics?

I just completed Essential Statistics for Data Analysis using Excel and I realized that statistics can be very enjoyable. Especially when you develop hands-on skills and are given practical examples with interesting data and insights. It inspired me to write this article on descriptive statistics, which uses some of Kenya’s open datasets. Have fun!

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1 Feb 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Data Science Excel, open data, statistics

Mapping Nairobi’s Matatu Routes

About 70% of Nairobi’s population uses matatus and buses to commute between home and work. Despite this, information on matatu/bus routes and stops remained scarce until the Digital Matatus project collected the field data in 2014. Let’s take a closer look at their GIS data and see whether we can put it to good use.

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18 Jan 2018 Willy Simons 2 Comments Data Science Matatu, Nairobi, route finder

Unlocking Kenya’s 2009 Census Data

Kenya conducted its last population and housing census in 2009. Total population was initially estimated at 38.6 million, but this has now been revised to 37.7 million. Since population is a key factor in planning, let us review the census data with the aim of enhancing its dissemination and utilization.

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11 Jan 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Data Science census, county, Kenya, population, web app

How to Start Using ArcGIS Pro Tasks

GIS data editing is an arduous task that one rather assigns to junior and novice GIS staff. Such staff will use less efficient workflows and produce more errors. This presented a real dilemma. Now with ArcGIS Pro Tasks complicated workflows can be executed efficiently by a larger number of GIS staff.

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9 Dec 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS Pro, GIS, productivity, tasks

Geospatial is Where in Data Science

Statement or question? Data science is in the news as a discipline that can solve business problems through big data. The fast-growing geospatial industry has been handling large volumes of spatial data for decades. Let’s look at both and find out how they can sustain each other’s growth.

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30 Nov 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Data Science data science, geospatial, GIS
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