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5 Mins Read 6 Feb 2024

SedonaSnow: Apache Sedona On Snowflake, Accelerating Your GIS Pipeline, Exploring Global Fishing Watch Data With GeoParquet, and Apache Sedona 1.5.1 Release

Explore SedonaSnow—Apache Sedona on Snowflake—for faster GIS pipelines, GeoParquet-powered analytics, and highlights from the Sedona 1.5.1 release.

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12 Mins Read 18 Jan 2024

Exploring Global Fishing Watch Public Data With Apache Sedona, Wherobots Cloud & GeoParquet

This post is a hands-on look at offshore ocean infrastructure and industrial vessel activity with Apache Sedona in Wherobots Cloud using data from Global Fishing Watch. We also see how GeoParquet can be used with this data to improve the efficiency of data retrieval and enable large-scale geospatial visualization. Global Fishing Watch Overview Earlier this […]

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5 Mins Read 12 Jan 2024

The Wherobots Notebook Environment – Getting Started With Wherobots Cloud Part 2

The Wherobots Notebook Environment is the main development interface for developers and data scientists working with WherobotsDB in Wherobots Cloud. In this post we’ll take a look at configuring and starting a notebook environment then see how to work with WherobotsDB via Python and Spatial SQL. This is the second post in a series that […]

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5 Mins Read 3 Jan 2024

Introducing The Havasu Spatial Table Format, Wherobots 2023 In Review, Analyzing Overture Maps and Real Estate Data: This Month In Wherobots

In the latest edition of This Month In Wherobots the latest highlights from the Wherobots & Apache Sedona community include an overview of the Havasu spatial table format, a look back at Wherobots’ 2023 in review, analyzing Overture Maps and real estate data, finding the perfect Christmas tree, plus big data analytics for sustainable smart […]

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4 Mins Read 21 Dec 2023

Wherobots: 2023 Year in Review!

2023 has been an exceptional year for Wherobots, marked by a series of significant milestones. In Q3, we proudly announced a $5.5 million seed funding round, setting a strong financial foundation for our future endeavors. Our team experienced a remarkable 300% growth compared to the previous year, a testament to our expanding capabilities and reach. […]

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10 Mins Read 20 Dec 2023

Havasu: A Table Format for Spatial Attributes in a Data Lake Architecture

Introduction In the past decade, many organizations have been using BLOB storage (e.g., AWS S3) as a primary storage platform. These organizations collect tons of data and ingest it as files into S3 for its scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability. However, there has since been a need to interact with such data using SQL, which […]

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