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A Mapping Masterclass - Power BI Icon Map, MapBox and Carto!!

Power BI for Enviro’s Meetup - January Event!

What we'll do

Well we made it through so welcome to 2021 everyone - we're excited to announce our first session of the year focused on spatial visualisation with our mapping masterclass!

The line-up for the January 2021 edition includes:

1) Getting started with the Icon Map: Alice Drummond (~ 25 mins)
The Icon Map is a powerful mapping visual that allows us to display points, polylines and polygons altogether - by leveraging the MapBox custom tilesets we can provide really rich spatial context to our data - Alice will take us through getting started with the Icon Map, and answer your questions on how best to apply it!

2) Mapbox API’s: Idris Syed (~25 mins):
Idris will guide us through the Mapbox API, and show how you can automate your spatial dataflow using this feature.

3) Developing interactive maps using Carto: Chandni Gupta (~ 25 mins)
Chandni will take us through how to develop interactive maps with Carto, using a customised Mapbox basemap. She'll also show how we can then embed these maps into our websites to share with a wider audience. If you want to learn more about the session, here is a link to a map Chandni recently developed using Carto: https://chandnig.carto.com/builder/36a1d168-a907-4326-95fa-31b5c95b95ad/embed

There will be an opportunity for 5 minutes' worth of questions for each presenter at the end of their sessions.

4) We will have 15 minutes available for Q&A at the end of the session!!

**********Info on your presenters are below**********
Alice Drummond is co-founder of DiscoverEI and her passion is finding clever ways to process, analyse and share environmental data. Alice is heavily involved in the Power BI community, being a Microsoft MVP for the Data Platform. Drawing on her background working for over 9 years as environmental engineer specialising in surface water and groundwater modelling, Alice works collaboratively with government organisations to turn mountains of data into practical, useful, decision-guiding insights.

Idris Syed works in the Technology and Digital Innovation Team at the City of Melbourne, and is a seasoned BI consultant with 13 years of experience working for government and private organizations. He is passionate about Microsoft BI/Cloud technologies with a proficiency in visualising data using Power BI, DAX and Power Query.

Chandni Gupta works as a Spatial Analyst at Mosaic Insights, and has completed a Master’s in Data Science. She has a real passion for coding.