QotW: “Data is the new oil, but it’s maybe the crude oil. It’s messy. It needs to be refined. [GIS] clean that data in a way that removes its caveats, removes its impediments for scaling, so that lots of people can go ahead and [use] it.”
The importance of risk data is already well established, but effectively leveraging that data in more creative ways to make more informed decisions is still evolving.