Workshop by Oracle
Purpose of the workshop including specific learning objectives
After the workshop participants should have a basic understanding of the concepts and benefits of spatial data processing on the Hadoop platform.
Target workshop audience
IT Architects, Project Managers, GIS Practitioners, Developers
Workshop duration
2 hours
Instructions for participants - materials required
Attendees interested in hands-on work need to download and install a virtual machine available here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/oracle-bigdatalite-2104726.html . Make sure that your laptop has sufficient capacity in terms of CPU cores, RAM and disk space and meets the requirements listed in the deployment guide
Detailed description of workshop
This interactive workshop will take attendees through the basics of using Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph on the Hadoop platform. After an overview of the solution architecture and typical process flows participants have the opportunity to either follow a number of practical demos or even try out samples on their own Laptops using a pre-built virtual environment. Topics covered in the workshop will include:
- Introduction to massively parallel vector data processing using Oracle Big data Spatial and Graph
- Geospatial analysis such as k-means clustering
- Overview of the geo-enrichment and categorization framework
- Introduction of raster data processing on Hadoop
- Visualization of results using a sample application
Workshop Facilitators
This workshop will be led by Hans Viehmann. Hans is responsible for Oracle's Spatial and Graph technologies as well as Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph as Director of Product Management. He studied Physics at Hamburg University and Imperial College, London, and started his career in Research with the prestigious Max Planck Gesellschaft before joining ORACLE over twenty years ago. He has been working on GIS Systems, Spatial Databases and Spatial Data Infrastructures since the mid-Nineties and turned Spatial and Graph database sales into a sustainable business for Oracle Germany over the following years. After various positions in Presales Management he joined the Product Management Team in 2011 and since then acts as the representative of the Oracle Spatial and Graph Development Team across Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role he is responsible for key projects and strategic partnerships, marketing activities, as well as internal awareness around the Location Products within ORACLE's various regional organizations and business units. He also serves on the Advisory Board of InGeoForum, Germany.
Albert Godfrind has over 25 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying IT applications. His interest and enthusiasm for spatial information and geographical information systems began at Oracle when he started using the spatial extensions of the Oracle database in 1998.
Ever since, Albert has been evangelizing the use of spatial information to GIS and BI communities across Europe, consulting with partners and customers, speaking at conferences, and designing and delivering in-depth technical training.
Albert is one of the authors of the first book on Oracle Spatial, "Pro Oracle Spatial - The essential guide to developing spatially enabled business applications