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What do you mean by location intelligence?
Depends who you are and your perspective…
…is location intelligence just the newest buzz word for spatial analytics,
geographic information systems (GIS)?
… is it the ability to visualize spatial data and understand relationships
between specific locations, helping you make better strategic business
decisions?
… is it the combining of location-related data with other business data
that allows you to see you business data with a different perspective?
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What do we mean by data intelligence?
Data integration.
Spatial relationships.
Better Decisions..
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Data integration.
Data formats:
Excel
CSV or delimited text
Databases
Cloud datasets
GIS
Added Value:
Geocoding
Drive time polygons
Demographics data
Merging data:
Joining
Appending
Filtering:
Conditional testing
Spatial filtering
Data cleansing
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Spatial relationships.
Spatial Filtering:
Nearest Neighbor(s):
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Data integration.
Spatial relationships.
Better Decisions.
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Better Decisions.
Output formats:
Excel
CSV or delimited text
Databases
GIS (MapInfo)
PDF
Automation:
Daily reports
Standardized templates
Summaries:
Pivot tables
Statistics
Reporting:
Charting
Tables
Mapping
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Templating with Excel.
Utilize Excel to
present your
data
Automatically
repopulate
tables and
charts with
new data
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Standardized PDF Reporting.
Get to the point!
Summarize
Spatial and
Tabular data in a
formatted PDF
You need Location Intelligence tools if… you use geospatial information to interpret marketing and operations data? you engaged in analyzing customer demographic information? you find yourself asking "where is this happening" when you look at spreadsheets of sales data?...then aLocation Intelligence application can probably help you.
We see three ‘chapters’ to the Location Intelligence / Spatial Analytics story:Data IntegrationBring data togetherMultiple formatsMerging dataFiltering dataAdded valueGeocodingRoutingSpatial relationships – light weight GIS operationsPoint – to – point relationshipsPoint – to – area relationships (Drive time areas)Better DecisionsReportingSummary
Data IntegrationMultiple formatsCSV ExcelDatabaseCloud - SalesForceGIS - mapinfoMerging dataJoining vs. appending vs. aggregatingFiltering dataTestingCleaning – filtering out bad dataAdded valueGeocodingRouting
Typical types of Spatial Interaction for Location Intelligence.Point – on - areaAreas Buffering – buffer a line to get a region of interestVoronoi polygons – all points inside the area are closest to the seed pointPoint – to – pointSame dataset to itself. i.e. dataset of cell towers and we want to find the closest three towers to the current towerDifferent datasets. How close is this business to the food vendor? 1:1 type of relationshipDifferent datasets. Which locations closest too which sites - M:1 type of relationship : i.e. all the customers closest to this event
How is one set of data related to another – or to itself
1 demo here:This workspace shows the three broad areas of Location Intelligence as we see it.Full demoData Integrations (EXCEL, MAPINFO, SalesForce)Filter/Test – attribute & spatial filtering. + adding valueMerging – merging using attribute & spatial characteristicsOutput – only to CSV here but we’ll show PDF next.
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For reference only
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Two demos to choose from (I wouldn’t do both):02a. Nearest&Dearest v01 2014.fmwPoint-to-point comparison. GeographicNeighborFinder allows you to select the search range in M,FT, Miles,KMFind the three nearest points. Also creates the vectors for visualization.02b. ZipCodes v01.fmwFor each event location, which is the nearest ZIP code. This example builds a Voronoi area for each zip code and then for each area matches the event
Two examples to choose from:03a. ChartTemplate.fmwShows writing to Excel with some formatting options set (using an XSLX file as a template and Custom Formatting on the feature type)03b. PDFTemplater.fmw