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GIS Data Science forCollaboration Across Communities:

GIScience 2.0 and BeyondDr. Brand Niemann

Director and Senior Data ScientistSemantic Community

http://semanticommunity.info/AOL Government Blogger

http://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/May 28, 2013

http://semanticommunity.info/GIS_Data_Science

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Background

• Attended: Collaboration Across Communities: GIScience 2.0 and Beyond– My Note: Invited to attend one day as a journalist (I selected May 22 –

Data Communities)• Learned about:

Storytelling with Maps: Workflows and Best Practices, WorldMap, New Data.gov Catalog, GIS BOK, Are there fundamental principles in Geographic Information Science?, Google Earth to Shape Files, ESRI Maps for Office, ARCGIS Online, Make a Map Tour Story Map, Storytelling with Maps: Workflows and Best Practices– My Note: All of this gives me something for a data science product and

story.

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Purpose• Suggested: A GIS Data Science team do a pilot for the

Federal Big Data Senior Steering WG and help them with Work Force Development (train university students to be data scientists with big GIS data)– My Note: I suggested that to a GIS Ph.D. Candidate at the Conference and he thanked

me for the suggestion!• Suggested: Making key publications compliant with the

Digital Government Strategy– Are there fundamental principles in Geographic Information Science? (Still being sold,

but is it copyrighted?)• My Note: Make notes on the Afterword by Michael Goodchild

– GIS&T Body of Knowledge 1.0 (Free of charge and available as a PDF)• My Note: I did this. See next slides and

Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge

– May 20-23, 2013 Conference Proceedings, Collaboration Across Communities: GIScience 2.0 and Beyond• My Note: I did this. See next slides and GIS Data Science

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Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge

http://www.aag.org/bok/

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GIS&T BOK 1.0 Knowledge Base

Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge

My Note: Well-defined URLsFor each Section and Sub-section.

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Google Earth Browser

http://www.google.com/intl/en/earth/index.html

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Google Earth Applications

• Versions:– Google Earth: Free download– Google Earth Pro: Costs for higher resolution printing

and commercial uses• File:– Open: kml, kmz, eta, ini– Save: My Places, Image jpg

• My Note: Many use Google Maps. Also see the New Google Maps!– http://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/deskto

p/preview/

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Google Maps• Sources of information

– To bring you relevant results, Google Maps for the United States combines information from many sources. Our listings include information from:• Our web search results• Data submitted directly by local business owners• User submitted photographic content• Street View imagery• Third-party sources (e.g. the Yellow Pages)

– In the lower right-hand corner of the map, you can see the source of the base map data for a map (eg. Map Data © 2012 Google). Please note that we aren't currently able to share our full list of U.S. Yellow Pages sources.

• Correct or add information– If you've found incorrect information about a listing and would like to edit it,

you can do so using the Report a problem feature.– If you are the owner of a business, you can verify your business. If you have

already claimed and verified your listing, you can edit your listing.http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=1687350&answer=7103

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Google Earth to Shape File

http://www.zonums.com/online/kml2shp.php

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ArcGIS Online

http://www.arcgis.com/home/

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ArcGIS Online Free 30-Day Trial

http://www.esri.com/software/esri-maps-for-office/free-trial

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ESRI Maps for Office

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/esri-maps-office/#/Frequently_asked_questions/029300000020000000/

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Data.gov New Catalog Example

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?res_format=Excel&tags=earth+science&res_format=ZIP

My Note: Same ZIP files at two locations!My Note: Same two HTML pages!

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ECSTDB2005 - U.S. Geological Survey East Coast Sediment Texture Database (2005)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/data/surficial_sediments/ecstdb2005.zip http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/sedsamples/ecstdb2005/ecstdb2005.zip

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of2005-1001/data/surficial_sediments/

Shape

Metadata

Text like Excel

Images

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USGS GIS Data Catalog 1:U.S. Geological Survey East Coast Sediment Texture Database (2005)

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of2005-1001/htmldocs/datacatalog.htm

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USGS GIS Data Catalog 2:U.S. Geological Survey East Coast Sediment Texture Database (2005)

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of2005-1001/htmldocs/datacatalog.htm

My Note: Additional Basemap Layers

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Ecstdb2011.xls Excel Data Set

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of2005-1001/data/surficial_sediments/ecstdb2011.xls

My Note: Geo-referencing

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Spotfire Data Ecosystem

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GISDataScience-Spotfire

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Spotfire With World Country Shape File

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GISDataScience-Spotfire

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Spotfire Spatial Statistics

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GISDataScience-Spotfire

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Spotfire With Image, Shape & Excel Files

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GISDataScience-Spotfire

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Summary and Next Steps

• GIScience 2.0 and Beyond Needs Data Science Collaboration Across Communities

• GIS Data Science Needs Data Scientists Working with Big GIS Data in Teams On High-Value Government Business and Science Problems

• Google Maps and ESRI GIS Online Are the Basic Tools for GIS Data Science, But Tools Like MindTouch and Spotfire Are Needed For Producing Products and Stories

• This Will Revolutionize the Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge Version 2.0