Maps in R For Everyone! High Powered Geospatial Analysis Made Easy w/ Art Steinmetz - nyhackr
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Talk Title- Maps in R For Everyone! High Powered Geospatial Analysis Made Easy
Talk Description- The past few years have seen an explosion in open source geospatial tools for R as well a huge increase in publicly available geospatial data sets. In this talk we will see how just a few lines of code can create an animated flood inundation map modeling the flooding of the Dnipro river delta below the Kakhovka Dam after its destruction.
Bio- Art is a private investor located in New York City and serves on several boards. He is an avid amateur data scientist and is active in the R statistical programming language community. Art is the retired CEO of OppenheimerFunds. He was with the firm from 1985 until 2019 when it was sold to Invesco. He spent most of his career as a global macro fixed-income investor.Additionally, Art is passionate about advancing financial and mathematical literacy, which he believes are essential elements of the next generation’s success and targets his philanthropy in that direction. He is a board member or "Rock The Street, Wall Street" and the former chair of the Board of the National Museum of Mathematics (“MoMath”)Art holds an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Russian language and Slavic Studies from Denison University.