Brendan Collins
Brendan Collins is an expert in data science and geospatial technology and is Founder and Principal of makepath, a spatial data science firm in Austin, Texas. With over 15 years of experience in GIS related to forestry and conservation, he has worked with Anaconda, Blue Raster, The Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute, New Forests, World Wildlife Fund, Bat Conservation International, NASA, and Samsung.
As an active contributor on several open source projects, he is a core developer on Datashader, Bokeh, and most recently created the xarray-spatial library for large scale spatial analysis.
Brendan earned degrees in Environmental Policy and Latin American Studies from Tulane University and was recognized for acclaimed custom software development while completing his Master's Degree in Geographic Information Science at Pennsylvania State University.
Talks
Who Said Wrangling Geospatial Data at Scale was Easy?
In this talk, I’ll briefly introduce the various modes in which geospatial data comes. I’ll also focus on the most efficient ways to condense large amounts of geospatial data into analyzable chunks, to speed up data processing and analysis.