HEAVY.AI for Geospatial Analysts
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So much of the world's data is now location-enriched, resulting in a big opportunity to extend location intelligence techniques to conventional big data analytics processes. Equally, geospatial-specific processes in GIS tools are becoming too slow for today's data volumes. HEAVY.AI bridges this divide by making geospatial capabilities a first-class citizen of our accelerated analytics platform. With HEAVY.AI, geospatial analysts can interactively explore up to millions of polygons and billions of mapped points, BI and big data analysts can now easily incorporate spatio-temporal analysis in their regular big data analytics workflows.
Key Geospatial Analyst Challenge 1
How to Optimize Geospatial Analysis
Challenge
Big geospatial analysis is slow and lacks context with non-geo statistics
A Forbes article reported that “66% of enterprises rank location intelligence as either critical or very important to revenue growth strategies.” Yet, mainstream GIS platforms struggle to analyze more than a few hundred thousand data points, and then only with latency that makes visual exploration of GIS data incomplete, slow and uncomfortable. The need for advanced geospatial analysis tools is now greater than ever.
Solution
Cross filter billions of data points on a map, and run geo calculations at scale
In milliseconds, you can cross-filter billions of location data records alongside other features, to understand location in context of your mission. HEAVY.AI stores geographic data types (POINT, LINESTRING, POLYGON, and MULTIPOLYGON) in native form, so you can run massive parallel calculations on geo data to optimize logistics routes or see how many U.S. schools are within flood zones (for example).
How
Leverage the massive parallelism of modern architecture
The HeavyDB SQL engine natively stores geographic and geometric data types (POINT, LINESTRING, POLYGON, and MULTIPOLYGON). This enables you to run geo calculations with the massively parallel processing power of CPUs and GPUs. Because polygons are rendered natively on the backend, you can interactively explore millions of shapes on a chart in a web browser. Speed and power come from HEAVY.AI's back end.
Key Geospatial Analyst Challenge 2
Cross-filtering to Prepare GIS Data
Challenge
Data prep: the worst use of your time and attention
You probably spend hours prepping your GIS data and selecting features for analysis. This data prep involves tedious, row-by-row exploration--not what you dreamed of when you chose this profession. You’d rather spend less time getting data ready and more time turning it into insights, recommendations and actions.
Solution
Explore geo data visually so you can prepare it faster
HEAVY.AI is ideal for geospatial analysis. Our analytics platform speeds data exploration with extraordinarily fast SQL queries, rendering and visualization. You can import native geo data into OmniSci, explore it visually, and clean it quickly, so it’s ready for analysis and reporting to your colleagues.
How
Watch the HEAVY.AI tutorial on ingesting and exploring Google Analytics data
Read this blog post by HEAVY.AI's Veda Shankar. Veda explains how to use the HeavyImmerse visualization system to explore data, with powerful cross-filtering. Geospatial analysts can use this type of zero-latency exploration of very large geo data to understand the dataset and prepare it for further use.
Key Geospatial Analyst Challenge 3
Collaboratively Sharing Geo Insights
Challenge
Sharing can be hard and colleagues not steeped in GIS data often miss the point
You rarely work alone. Even if you are the only geospatial analyst in the company, you must share geospatial findings with co-workers, clients and partners who don’t understand cartography or spatial analysis. You may discover great insights, but they will only be as valuable as your ability to communicate them to others.
Solution
Freely share geospatial and business intelligence insights in the same dashboard
HEAVY.AI visualization makes it easy to share geo charts and geospatial calculations with others. If you find a better transportation route, a real estate opportunity, or an enemy on the battlefield, you can show it to others in real time. Object-level permissions let you share geospatial data and dashboards without worrying about view permissions. We take care of that for you on the backend.
How
Dashboard sharing helps you collaborate with your non-GIS counterparts
Your geospatial analysis becomes more valuable as more people can see it, interact with it and understand it. Some charts may contain sensitive information and this can make sharing seem dangerous. HEAVY.AI solves this by decoupling object-level view permissions from the ability to share interactive dashboards with others.