CORRECTION 2019 August 15 Meeting: PostGIS

Hi everyone,

This meeting is actually scheduled for Thursday Aug 15th. Sorry for any
inconvenience!

Regards,
Mark

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:51:47PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> Time: 6pm-8pm
> Location: https://www.pdx.edu/accelerator/directions
>
> PSU Business Accelerator
> 2828 SW Corbett Ave · Portland, OR
> Parking is open after 5pm.
> Room 208 (on the second floor)
>
> Speaker: Jackson Voelkel
>
> Jackson will discuss the basics of GIS, and the current environment in
> which enterprise spatial analytics are performed. Considering the many
> pitfalls of this current system, he will discuss how FOSS tools -
> especially PostgreSQL/PostGIS - are vitally important for modern spatial
> analytics. In addition to the PostGIS extension, Jackson will talk about
> network routing using the PgRouting extension and the interface between
> R and PostgreSQL. This talk will act more as a showcase of GIS and
> “spatial SQL” within PostgreSQL than it will nitty-gritty database
> development.
>
> Jackson Voelkel is a Health Data Analyst on Kaiser Permanente’s GIS Team
> as well as an Adjunct Professor of Geography at Portland State
> University. He focuses on developing infrastructure for and performing
> advanced spatial analytics across healthcare, environment, urban
> planning, utilities, and econometrics. He teaches courses on advanced
> spatial analytics in R as well as spatial database design with
> PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
>