December 9, 2019 — SkyWatch is excited to announce that the company was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to complete Phase I of the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Advanced Autonomous […]
FDNY geospatial mapping used to reach opioid overdose cases Nurses and nursing students are using local, real-time maps of opioid overdoses to guide their work in community health settings. The Fire Department of New York […]
Who will own the data collected by autonomous vehicles? Who will own the data collected by autonomous vehicles? That is the question being assessed by researchers at Dartmouth College. Data privacy, ownership, cyber security and […]
When GIS is everywhere, what is it? As GIS becomes mainstream, it is aided by a proliferation of open-source, easily accessible platforms. The expansion of software development is making an entirely new business model: the […]
Big business, big data According to a 2017 Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, by 2022 40% of all big enterprises will combine big data and machine learning to solve complex problems and replace service desk […]
Canada, like so many other countries around the world, is embracing the idea of smart cities. This spring Industry Canada closed a competition for the Smart Cities Challenge. They describe it as “…a pan-Canadian competition […]
Why is Red River College closing its GIS program? “Low Industry and labour market demand and difficulty attracting students” as well as budget costs to post-secondary schools in Manitoba have been cited as causes in […]
Will a new Geospatial Analysis tool from Uber challenge traditional GIS software? Kepler.gl is Uber’s new “data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data set”. With no need for coding, Kepler.gl is […]