Ujaval Gandhi
Ujaval is the founder of Spatial Thoughts - a learning platform for modern geospatial technologies. He got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He has worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the aerial imagery group in India. He was the lead trainer for Google Earth Engine in India and conducted numerous training sessions across the country.
Ujaval’s interest and expertise is using open-source spatial analysis software to automate GIS and Remote Sensing workflows. He is a world-renowned GIS expert and training facilitator who is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is also a visiting faculty/researcher at University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Talks
Travel Time Prediction for Urban Travel using Uber Movement and OpenStreetMap
In this talk, we will demonstrate how two large open datasets - Uber Movement and OpenStreetMap (OSM) - can be used to develop a pretty robust travel time predictor for urban travel. We use open-source routing libraries to build a machine learning model that can accurately predict travel time across many cities of the world.