The event will also showcase existing uses of spatial data for adaptation.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

This side event will launch an initiative to establish a common spatial data framework for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning, linking a wide range of relevant data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

For example, a third party may provide a Snap in the SnapStore that allows you to connect to SalesForce, SAP, Oracle, Twitter, Facebook, or common data feeds from other sources, such as stock prices or geo-spatial data.

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They are about data and spatial awareness, but also about money, empire and discovery.

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They need to make the data actionable and leverage spatial or predictive analytics to add real intelligence into the analytics process.

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ESRI's software's key strength is the "club sandwich effect" by which customers handle advanced spatial analysis with up to dozens of layers of data from economic, demographic and environmental databases.

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Scientific data focus on bio-physical factors and broad spatial scales, but lack the perspective, societal components and human dimension that Arctic communities require to guide adaptation.

UNESCO: THEMES

After all, SAP has supported use of the data in its applications by firms like ESRI that offer advanced geo-spatial mapping capabilities.

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The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London, another research hotbed, uses data from London's Oyster cards used to pay for public transport and Twitter messages.

ECONOMIST: Urban research

Instead of poring over pages of reports if I can see the data in bar charts, line graphs, pie charts or integrated with geo-spatial tools, I can make a lot more sense of it.

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