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2025 Ohio GIS Conference Notes

Breakout Session 1: Applying Project Management Principles to Geospatial Projects and ProgramsSpeaker: Ashley Hitt, Cultivate Geospatial Solutions Project Knowledge Areas Integration Scope Schedule Cost Quality Resource Technology and People Communications “Top project managers are 90% focused on communication.” Risk Procurement Stakeholder Project v. Program Project Has specific objectives Elaborate plans progressively Scope defined by objectives Temporary and Unique

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September 15, 2025

Reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Chapter 1

Defining Data Engineering Their definition: Data engineering is the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems and processes that take in raw data and produce high-quality, consistent information that supports downstream use cases, such as analysis and machine learning. Data engi‐ neering is the intersection of security, data management, DataOps, data architecture, orchestration, and software engineering. A data engineer manages the data engineering lifecycle, beginning with getting data from source systems and ending with serving data for use cases, such as analysis or machine learning.

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August 19, 2025

Public Data for the Public Good (CURA Seminar)

Notes from a presentation by Joy Bonaguro, former CDO of California. Title: Public Data for the Public Good. Hosted by CURA. Virtual.

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August 18, 2025

Website Setup

Setting up this website.When starting this website, I needed to decide on a static site generator to serve the site to github pages.

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August 18, 2025