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Location, location, location. While a major factor when it comes to real estate, especially in relation to a home’s value, location is a critical factor in so much more than where we live. Whether it be work, home, shopping, or investing, the location in which we do these things has…

By Ankit Patel The pressure on engineering executives can feel astronomical. On the one hand, the continued profitability of companies large and small depend upon us. Particularly in the tech sector, companies that do not innovate do not survive. On the other hand, we have to lead, inspire, and coalesce massive teams. Amazon, for instance, announced they’d hire 55,000 knowledge workers, mostly in software engineering. These massive teams are then subdivided into their own teams, creating a “team of teams” dynamic that requires precise coordination. …

By: Kati Buchheit Win new cities and shape tomorrow’s streets with geospatial visual analytics The micromobility revolution Micromobility vehicles hve flooded urban centers around the world, reshaping our streets and the way we move from point A to point B. In fact, according to Gensler, “In the past year alone, hundreds of thousands of electric scooters were deployed in more than 150 cities. …

Grafana meets the next-generation of GIS. Elevate your dashboards with Unfolded’s advanced geospatial analytics and visualizations. — If you’re an analyst, product manager, or developer, you’re likely familiar with Grafana. You may even use the open-source software to better understand and visualize your system metrics, logs, and traces in one unified view. This unified view is achieved through operational dashboards that users can build using a variety…

By: Shan He As any data scientist will tell you, the combination of increasingly large data sets and the varied data types have made yielding useful business insights a major challenge. Individual data sets have gotten so large and cover so many topics — believe it or not, there is…

By: Isaac Brodsky OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open, community-maintained base map of the world. It includes the outlines of countries, locations of cities, important places and landmarks, natural features like rivers, and roads — all of which can be important for businesses looking to perform geospatial analytics. …

By: Isaac Brodsky (Foursquare), David Ellis (IaSQL), AJ Friend (Uber), Nick Rabinowitz (Foursquare) Today marks the release of version 4.0.0 of the H3 hexagonal grid system. With this new version comes numerous API improvements as well as updates to the Java, Javascript, and Python bindings. To provide more detail, H3…

Trokhymovych Mykola, Oleksandr Kosovan This article observes our solution to Foursquare — Location Matching Kaggle competition. The competition took place from 14th April 2022 to 8th July 2022. Totally 1079 teams took part in the competition, making 22k+ submissions. …

Foursquare Visits and Constellation’s Dor Traffic Miner offer quality optimization opportunities and data-driven insights. In a new partnership, Constellation Network will be teaming up with Foursquare to provide better insights into restaurant and retail business traffic trends. “We’re thrilled to partner with Constellation,” said Stu Kendall, Director of Product Marketing…