1. Data is a Dish Best Served Hot Robert C. White, Jr. President, WhiteStar Corporation
2. Rule of Presentations Take your audience to places they’ve never been before or places they cannot visit, introduce them to fascinating people, and tell them things they never would have thought possible. - Dave Baysinger - Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
7. Desire Desire to read the Texas RRC permit data Desire to generate a .JPG Desire to automate this process Run a .FMW designed in FME Workbench Run in a batch file that Calls wget to get the file Runs the .FMW Creates a new PostgreSQL table Moves the .JPG to the right place
13. Recipe Want a repeatable workflow. Create a tabular table in PostgreSQL Create a raster .jpg map showing Well permits highlighted in the past week County names Well API number Map can be analyzed to reveal patterns! Want to know what wells are permitted < 5000 feet from my pipeline this week.
20. Combining Remember permit # is only in record 01 Set a global variable for permitno It only changes when you get a new 01 Add that to subsequent records Use FeatureMerge to combine records together based on the same permitno This must be done one record type at a time
22. Baking Cook County boundaries Build line and poly topologies. Create text for select features Buffer point features Set polygon Fill colors Text heights Font
34. Recap What’s required for tasty cuisine? A desire – Convert Raw File Research – Ask the head chefs. A recipe – The grunt work Shopping - Gather Data Resources Preparing- Use the utensils to simplify .FMW Combining – Merge ingredients together Baking – A pinch of salt, food coloring to taste. Presentation – Stuff the pizza crust. Do you like? – The acid test.
35. Thank You! Questions? For more information: Robert C. White, Jr. – rwhite@whitestar.com The WhiteStar Corporation http://www.whitestar.com
