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Published inJul 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781787120730
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Andrew Minteer
Andrew Minteer
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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
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In this chapter, you learned about how to use geospatial analytics to find insights and answer complex questions about IoT data. The importance of geospatial analysis for geographically distributed IoT devices was discussed. The concept of CRS was introduced along with haversine distance and its limitations.

The world is not a perfect sphere. Methods to adjust for that in order to accurately measure distance was covered. Python functions for geospatial analytics, such as buffer and contains, were discussed, along with some examples.

Storing and processing geospatial data requires some specialized handling. Some geospatial databases and GIS software tools were reviewed. PostGIS spatial functions were also reviewed. We went over some tips for leveraging geospatial analytics in a big data world.

Geospatial analytics offers a huge opportunity to analyze IoT data in new and innovative ways. It can help discover patterns in noisy data. New services can then be created as another way to extract...

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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787120730

Author (1)

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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
Read more about Andrew Minteer