GIS In The Rockies Keynote: How to Remain Relevant in the Age of Change

Technology moves fast and when you have your head down doing your job, it is easy to miss where the spatial industry is headed. But you don't have to stay focused on Twitter all day to know how to keep your skills relevant. There are a couple technologies that GIS and Mapping use that will keep you on top of today's technology trends and make sure you are completely relevant in today's workforce. James will go over some amazingly simple ways to make sure you don't get left behind and give you the tools to be successful in any GIS job.

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1. How  to  Remain  Relevant  in  the  Age  of  Change or   What  GIS  Pros  Can  Do  to   Keep  Their  Skills  in  Demand Stormtroopers  On  A  Wire  by  Pedro  Vezini  hEp://flic.kr/p/8RRLk5
2. • 19  year  GIS  veteran • Started  own  consul5ng   company  in  2013 • Blogs  at  spa5allyadjusted.com • Doesn’t  own  a  GPS • Has  a  working   SPARCsta5on  20 A  LiEle   About  Me
3. The  Future… isn’t  always what  you  expect
4. Photo  by  drmacro  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/83i2aa I  loved  to  look  at  maps  at  a  young  age.    These  AAA  TripTik  maps  were  par5cularly  awesome  in  that  they  routed  you  to  your  des5na5on.
5. Photo  by  sylvar  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/o8EML Efficiency  it  was  not,  these  things  were  put  together  by  hand  and  you’d  best  hope  they  didn’t  skip  a  page!
6. Photo  by  Tambako  the  Jaguar  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/81nfaV Like  most  GIS  people  I  enjoyed  Risk,  nothing  like  using  a  map  as  a  board.    In  face  we  usually  dumped  the  default  Risk  board  and  used  an  atlas   for  real  world  domina5on.
7. Photo  by  larskflem  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/7Kr4J My  favorite  pas5me?    Reading  an  atlas.    It  was  by  my  bed  and  I  leafed  through  it  every  night.    I  think  I  looked  at  every  label  on  every  map  over   and  over  again.    Honestly  these  books  are  a  lost  art.
9. I  took  to  programming  at  an  early  age  too.    Logo  was  an  awesome  way  to  get  introduced  to  programming  a  computer.
10. But  quickly  I  outgrew  Logo  and  even  BASIC  and  looked  to  Pascal.    Once  I  determined  you  didn’t  get  a  Porsche  for  using  it,  I  moved  on.
11. I  think  the  thing  that  really  caught  me  was  HyperCard.    It  used  HyperTalk  to  control  user  ac5ons  and  was  similar  to  Pascal.    It  was  probably  the   most  popular  hypermedia  system  before  the  internet.
12. I  created  applica5ons  that  created  a  front  end  to  a  database.    
13. The  Modern Waldseemüller I  had  vision  of  being  a  modern  Waldseemuller….
14. Photo  by  Manitoba  Historical  Maps  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/4jPTyW Oblique  view  of  Winnipeg,  awesome  stuff.
15. Photo  by  noaha  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/CkruJ Alas,  I  could  only  draw  scribbbles.
16. I  turned  to  computers  to  give  me  more  fine  grained  control  that  AutoCAD  couldn’t  at  the  5me.  
17. I  started  to  do  amazing  computer  cartography  such  as  this.    Yea  it’s  blank,  my  work  is  stuck  on  this  old  SyQuest  Media…
18. I  also  dabbled  in  the  web  back  when  you  could  almost  throw  anything  up  and  get  visits.
19. I  can’t  find  a  copy  of  an  early  page  of  mine  but  I  like  to  think  it  included  an  awesome  background.
20. Arc/INFO Then  I  discovered  arc  
24. neon  takeaway  by  skipratmedia  hEp://flic.kr/p/uUuKX
26. always be learning A B L
28. Change  is  constant! But  one  thing  is  sure,  always  embrace  it…
29. What  is  GIS? Who  Cares? GIS is hard to define - GISP Example Spend less time worrying about what GIS is and more doing GIS
30. What  are  GIS  Professionals? Programmers! GIS professionals are programmers!
31. Say Wut?
32. Programmer   /=   Developer Photo  by  Joachim  S.  Müller  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/egrei2 A programmer is not a developer Programmer writes code Developer builds software applications
33. My mom was a programmer in the 60’s (that isn’t her). She told computers how to manipulate data from hospitals for insurance purposes.
34. James’  Definibon  of  a  GIS  Professional Someone  digitally  creates  and   "manipulates"  spabal  areas  that  may   be  jurisdicbonal,  purpose,  or   applicabon-­‐oriented. Now why did I bold manipulate?
35. Image  aEribubon:  ESRI  Internabonal  User  Conference  -­‐  2011  -­‐  San  Diego,  California  by  Kris  Krüg  hEp://flic.kr/p/a2rdhq  CC  BY-­‐NC-­‐SA  2.0 When Jack is up on stage, he’s showcasing how GIS Pros are programming ArcGIS to manipulate spatial data
36. History  of  GIS  Professionals Photo  by  Johnson  Cameraface  -­‐  hEp://flic.kr/p/dwQdSq
37. Rise  of  the  Database
38. Rise  of  the  Internet
40. PR1ME  COMPUTER Prime  made  minicomputers  for  most  of  the  70s  and  80s.    The  original  ArcInfo  ran  on  it.
41. Sun Microsystems   SPARCtower  6  by  storem  hEp://flic.kr/p/k79fJ Prime  made  minicomputers  for  most  of  the  70s  and  80s.    The  original  ArcInfo  ran  on  it.
42. Mobile We’ve  embraced  mobile  devices  for  years
43. Some  of  them  are  extremely  sexy
44. These  mesa  devices  are  among  my  favorite
46. Just  think  about  how  much  more  enjoyable  the  world  would  have  been  with  GIS  people  at  the  5p  of  the  spear.
47. Big  Data Big  data  is  a  buzz  word…
48. GIS  has  feasted  on  big  data  for  years.    I  mean  who  other  than  GIS  people  cares  that  there  is  a  4GB  limit  to  TIFF  or  that  a  JPG  can  only  be  30,000   pixels  wide?
49. Why  Do  GIS  Professionals  Stay  
50. GIS  Professionals  Assimilate  New  
51. GIS  is  at  the  Forefront Python 3D JavaScript Mobile XML .NET Scrip5ng GPS iOS RDBMS Database Big  Data Cloud Websites GRID Android Metadata Macintosh Windows Prin5ng JSON Vector UAV Sta5s5cs Data  Management UI Archiving KML Raster HTML5 Prototyping Java All  these  great  technologies!
52. We  Push  the  Envelope We  push  the  envelope
53. hEp://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/2989238425/ Python http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/2989238425/
54. If  you  like  GIS,  you  like  stabsbcs If  you  like  stabsbcs,  you  like   baseball If  you  like  baseball,  you  should   root  for  the  2012  World  Series   Champion  San  Francisco  Giants
55. Baseball  as  an  Excuse  to   Program
57. NYY 95 67 .586 +136 BAL 93 69 .574 +7 TAM 90 72 .556 +120 TOR 73 89 .451 -68 BOS 69 93 .426 -72 DET 88 74 .543 +56 CHS 85 77 .525 +72 KAN 72 90 .444 -70 CLE 68 94 .420 -178 MIN 66 96 .407 -131 OAK 94 68 .580 +99 TEX 93 69 .574 +101 LAA 89 73 .549 +68 SEA 75 87 .463 -32 WAS 98 64 .605 +137 ATL 94 68 .580 +100 PHI 81 81 .500 +4 NYM 74 88 .457 -59 MIA 69 93 .426 -115 CIN 97 65 .599 +81 STL 88 74 .543 +117 MIL 83 79 .512 +43 PIT 79 83 .488 -23 CHC 61 101 .377 -146 HOU 55 107 .340 -211 SFG 94 68 .580 +69 LAD 86 76 .531 +40 ARI 81 81 .500 +46 SDP 76 86 .469 -59 COL 64 98 .395 -132
58. #!/usr/bin/python from  scipy  import  stats from  pylab  import  * #  Read  in  the  data. mlb  =  loadtxt('mlb.txt',  dtype=[('team',  'S3'),  ('w',  'i'),  ('l',  'i'),  ('pct',  'f'),     ('rdiff',  'i')]) #  Plot  the  data  with  invisible  points. scatter(mlb['rdiff'],  mlb['w'],  s=0) xlabel('Run  differential') ylabel('Wins') #  Put  team  names  at  the  data  points. for  (t,  w,  rd)  in  zip(mlb['team'],  mlb['w'],  mlb['rdiff']):   text(rd,  w,  t,  size=9,     horizontalalignment='center',  verticalalignment='center') #  Perform  the  linear  regression m,  b,  r,  p,  stderr  =  stats.linregress(mlb['rdiff'],  mlb['w']) #  Get  endpoints  of  regression  line  and  plot  it. rdMin  =  min(mlb['rdiff']) wMin  =  m*rdMin  +  b rdMax  =  max(mlb['rdiff']) wMax  =  m*rdMax  +  b plot([rdMin,  rdMax],  [wMin,  wMax]) show() PyLab: NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and IPython (Replaces MATLAB) SciPy: linear regression matplotlib: plotting tools
61. Rainbows  and  Unicorns
62. The  Future  for  GIS   Professionals
63. So  You  Want  to  be  a Word  Processor Dames & Moore 4 people in an office of 100 10 years ago you could make a career doing this.
64. The  Future  for Word  Processors Dames & Moore 4 people in an office of 100 10 years ago you could make a career doing this.
65. What’s the future for GIS?
66. If  You... • Put  points  on  a  map  and  throw  up  a   scale  bar • Perform  geoprocessing  without  Python   or  Model  Builder • Have  a  job  descrip5on  of  “Ploier   Operator” • Have  no  idea  what  “fuzzy  tolerance”  is
67. You’ll  be  out  of  a  job
68. If  You... • Embrace  Python  as  your  GIS  tool  of   choice. • Use  Model  Builder  to  automate  your   work  flows. • Learn  new  tools  such  as  TileMill/ Mapnik/PostGIS
69. Bringing ArcView to the browser requires someone to create Geoprocessing scripts to enable that. You want to be that guy.
70. So  go  out  and  hug  a  globe  today!
71. Prinbng,  gunpowder  and  the  compass: These  three  have  changed  the  whole  face   and  state  of  things  throughout  the  world Francis  Bacon
72. Francis  Bacon Andrew  Turner Prinbng,  gunpowder  and  the  compass: Internet,  mobile  phones  and  the  GPS: These  three  have  changed  the  whole  face and  state  of  things  throughout  the  world Andrew  Turner  puts  it  so  very  well!
73. Contact James  Fee  –  Founder  Spa5ally  Adjusted email:  james@spa5allyadjusted.net voice:  480-­‐225-­‐2287 web:  spa5allyadjusted.com twiier:  @cageyjames Slide  Deck:  hip://bit.ly/gitr13_key