Thierry's EPUG 2013 presentation: The things about GIS you've always wanted to know...
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A light-hearted presentation on the idiosyncracies of GIS in the Oil & Gas industry... with a serious underlying message. Delivered at the European Esri Petroleum User Group conference in London, 14 November 2013.
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- 1. The things you’ve always wanted to know about GIS… but never dared to ask! Thierry Gregorius Principal Strategic Consultant
- 2. Presentation Outline & Biography Wordle created from Wikipedia pages for Energy, Petroleum, Natural Gas, Environmental Science, Real Estate, Conveyancing, Flood Insurance, GIS, Geodesy, Geomatics.
- 3. Gru’s cunning plan to steal the moon Wikipedia.org
- 4. “I fly to the moon, I shrink the moon, I grab the moon.”
- 5. “I make the map, I save the map, I share the map.” Image of Gru by Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment
- 7. geosoft.com
- 10. Traditional data management Lego.com • • • • Data stores neatly built from the ground up Authoritative, accessible Accurate, comprehensive? Time-consuming to build, time-saving to use?
- 11. Corporate Enterprise GIS Stack GIS User > GIS Team > Vendor > IT Dept > Jonathan Harford on Flickr (Creative Commons)
- 12. All those $$$ to enable this? …and now paste the map into Powerpoint. Done! Resources & Engineering Skills Alliance on flickr.com
- 13. “GIS is a computer system capable of holding and using data describing places on the earth's surface.“ ESRI, 1995 eurleif on flickr.com (Creative Commons) Page 13
- 14. Sure, the technology has changed but… The mobile revolution (2001)
- 16. Lessons from the world of Design & Art
- 17. Design Thinking is human-centred >> work with people’s natural inclinations, not against
- 18. Cartographic Design Award: 1st prize FOSS4G conference 2013 Map by Anna Butler, Wellingtons Travel http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/foss4g-map-contest/#slideid-255991
- 19. Cartographic Design Award: 1st prize FOSS4G conference 2013 Map by Anna Butler, Wellingtons Travel …it’s drawn by hand! http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/foss4g-map-contest/#slideid-255991
- 20. Real users do this larskflem on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
- 21. How people naturally work
- 22. safe.com
- 23. Lessons from the world of Data Science “Clean data is dead.” Claudia Perlich Data Scientist Quote from tech.gilt.com
- 24. Ever heard this? “Dear Internet, please clean up your pages so we can search them.” Page 24
- 25. GIS is a people system 1. People 2. Data 3. Technology not Technology working for the people, not people working for the technology.
- 26. Opportunity: Art and Science converging – for the first time since the Renaissance A new wave of data visualisations – mapping just one representation of many.
- 27. The web browser becomes the platform In a world of JavaScript, clouds and powerful browsers, do we still need this? RedMonk via reddit.com
- 28. 10 types of mapmakers… (not even including subsurface apps) By the author (georeferenced.wordpress.com)
- 29. People are more empowered than ever Despicable Me by Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment
- 30. But of course, people also make mistakes… Author private collection
- 31. Global Risks Loosely adapted from Global Risks 8th Edition, World Economic Forum 2013 Impact Climate change Finance crash Asteroids Pandemics Food shortage Inequality Cyper attacks Blowouts Terrorism Corruption Solar storms Mispositioning Space junk Evil map projections Likelihood
- 32. So, what to do? berniedup on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
- 33. More focus on the cake not just the icing GIS Data Cupcake Murder Aftermath on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
- 34. GIS does not always need a map interface… EdParsons.com TheAtlantic.com Channel4.com
- 35. We need new skills Lifelong learning Versatility, flexibility e.g. DevOps concept youtube.com
- 36. We need new tools Fast & simple mapping Xavier de Jauréguiberry on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
- 37. We need to keep things in perspective bulliver on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
- 38. • Accept realities: Data is still a mess, always will be • We need more • skills (data science & hacking) • flexible tools (data mining, manipulation) • automation (AI, machine learning) • simple mapping We need to enable people …to be more like people P.S. And I did not use the term ‘big data’ horrigons on flickr.com (Creative Commons)