Welcome
Welcome to Spatial-OR! This site is a place where we can discuss OR techniques as they relate to spatial analysis, geospatial decision support, and problem solving. I've met quite a few people who are...
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Software configurations for spatial research and development: Part 1 - Linux...
This post started as a list of software that I kept sporadically up to date over several years over at my personal site. From then, I started to get feedback from users that found that page and we kept...
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Software configurations for spatial research and development: Part 2 -...
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the software recommended for starting a Linux server for spatial data. This time we look at the Windows Server environment.Operating System - Windows Server...
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Researcher spotlight - Tatiyana Apanasovitch
Happy 4th of July Americans...In this series, we'll take a look around the web to check in on some of the top researchers in our field to see what they're up to. Today we're featuring Dr Tatiyana...
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IEEE VAST Symposium Challenge
Last night my team and I finished submitting our entries for the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Grand Challenge. This year's contest was made of four mini-challenges and a grand challenge...
View ArticlePreparing for the ESRI Intl User Conference
Next week is the big ESRI User Conference event. I've been to this show several times over the last 10 years and it keeps getting bigger and broader. If you're going, you'll have the opportunity to...
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Machine Learning Applied to Remote Sensing: Part 1 - Imagery
Remote sensing is the method of collecting and analyzing data using mechanical or electronic sensors. Commonly the industry considers imagery to be the main remote sensing medium. A new age of...
View ArticleUsing the open source R project for spatial statistics
This info was originally posted here, but since most people would never find that link, I decided to report it here where there's a bit more traffic. The open source R language and statistical package...
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GIS at massive scales... who will get us there? Understanding high...
As a GIS practitioner for over ten years I've been subject to all of the same limitations and headaches as my peers. GIS has some powerful capabilities for analysis and research, but boy can it be...
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Google shows trends in Ops Research activity
How much can you tell by the volume of Google searching on a particular topic? Apparently enough to predict a flu epidemic faster than the CDC. So I thought it would be interesting to search for a few...
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GIS and Spatial Analysis - Univ. Of MarylandIntroduction to Bayesian Inference: Hierarchical Models and Spatial Analysis - Brown Univ.Special topics in Applied Spatial Statistics - Texas...
View ArticleOptimization algorithms using OpenStreetMap data
Recently I've been making some edits to the map data served up by the good folks at OpenStreetMap.orgView Larger MapOSM is an open, free map of the world built by thousands (over 220,000 as of this...
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Review of the Hastie and Tibshirani course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining
I just got back from a two day short course by Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani based on their Stanford graduate stats course and book: Elements of Statistical Learning. The first edition of this...
View ArticleSpatial predictive analytics helps find Medicare Fraud
It's staggering the level of Medicare fraud in the US. IEEE Spectrum just published an article that describes a recent investigation by the FBI to uncover a fraud ring that were collecting improper...
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Congrats to Revolution Analytics for being named a top analytics company in...
Hurwitz and Associates recently published their Victory Index in a whitepaper that describes the current state of analytics in business management and applications. The index rates the top companies...
View ArticleESRI talks about new analysis features in an online Q&A
I received an email from ESRI today making sure that I knew about their recent web post of Q&A from the ESRI conference and followup answers. There are some interesting tidbits in there - Mac...
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