Name: Using the Modern Data Stack for Modeling and Analysis (Morning Half-Day) Workshop
Start: 2025-03-03T08:00:00-0500
End: 2025-03-03T12:00:00-0500

Welcome to the 2025 GIS/Valuation Technologies Conference, taking place in Columbus, Ohio, March 3-6, 2025! This is where you review the comprehensive educational program for the conference and plan your agenda.

The Geospatial Professional Network (formerly URISA) and the International Association of Assessing Officers are once again pleased to co-host this important event. Attendees earn ample IAAO CE credits and GISP Education points.

More education! Attendees requested more workshops - the opportunity to dive deeper into important topics. So we have included four half-day workshops to the conference on Thursday afternoon. Be sure to check them out and plan accordingly!

Go to this page to register for the conference and make travel plans and review sponsor and exhibit packages. Take note of early bird discounts through January 6!

Monday March 3, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm EST

Pheoris West A – 3rd Floor

Using the Modern Data Stack for Modeling and Analysis (Morning Half-Day) Workshop
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 8:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Instructor: Jean Cochrane, Senior Data Scientist, Cook County Assessor’s Office, IL

Are you struggling to build dashboards and models on top of your office's data systems, despite knowing how to write code and wrangle data? Teams that have software engineering and data science capacity can find themselves hamstrung by legacy databases or vendor tools that aren't built with programmatic interfaces in mind.

In this hands-on workshop, we'll learn about modern open-source and cloud-based data tools like Spark, dbt, Parquet, and AWS Athena, and we'll use them to build a simple ELT (extract, load, transform) workflow to pull data from a rigid source system into a more flexible data warehouse where we can easily manipulate them using tools like R, Python, SQL, and Tableau.

Hands-on workshop: Workshop participants will use their own computer/laptops for the exercises, using calculation tools provided by the workshop.

Speakers

Jean Cochrane

Senior Data Scientist, Cook County Assessor's Office

Jean Cochrane is a data scientist and software engineer building open source tools to make local government work better at the Cook County Assessor's Office. Prior to joining the Assessor, she spent seven years in the private sector where she wrote software for local governments... Read More →

Monday March 3, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm EST
Pheoris West A – 3rd Floor

Workshop

GISValTech2025

Jean Cochrane

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