Tracking tropical storm Alex’s potential impact on insurance policies with SpatialKey
Insurers and reinsurers alike are always on the lookout for tools that can provide them better predictive analysis and modeling of risk exposure, for example when faced with upcoming hurricanes, floods or other natural disasters. How will their policy portfolio be affected by a hurricane? Where should they dispatch local agents after a natural disaster? [...]
Law enforcement and sales management? Data is data is data.
Although business goals are drastically different from one organization to the other, it’s long been common sense to leverage analytics as much as possible to make decisions. Some organizations put together sophisticated systems to get fact-based answers to their questions, while others hack together whatever system they can afford. The great news is that analytical [...]
Where 2.0 and Crisis Mapping
Our own Doug McCune, SpatialKey engineer extraordinaire, will be presenting a session about Crisis Mapping at Where 2.0 in San Jose this Thursday, April 1st. If you are attending the event, please come to Ballroom III at 4:50pm. Analyzing conflicts via maps is not new. For centuries generals and politicians have moved pushpins on maps to [...]
Where are the Loud Neighbors? Late Night Noise in Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Police Department makes their dispatch database publicly available via monthly text files. These files are exported from Sacramento’s Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which supports police dispatch and response functions in their 911 center. These files include information about each dispatch, including details like date and time, type of call – from homicides [...]
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