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The official Jupyter Conference
Aug 21-22, 2018: Training
Aug 22-24, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Tyler Erickson

Tyler Erickson
Senior Developer Advocate, Google

Website | @tylerickson

Tyler A. Erickson is a senior developer advocate at Google, where he fosters collaborations with researchers from academia, NGOs, and governmental organizations seeking to capitalize on Earth Engine’s capabilities for geospatial analyses that involve immense satellite and model-based datasets. Tyler leads the development of Earth Engine’s core efforts in water and climate, guides the evolution of Earth Engine to support these scientific domains, and leads support efforts for the Earth Engine Python API. A snow hydrologist by training, he holds degrees in civil and environmental engineering and geography from Colorado State University, CalTech, Stanford, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Tyler is a longtime Python programmer, with contributions to the Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo) Foundation and the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conferences.

Sessions

11:55am–12:35pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Tyler Erickson (Google)
Massive collections of data on the Earth's changing environment, collected by satellite sensors and generated by Earth system models, are being exposed via web APIs by multiple providers. Tyler Erickson highlights the use of JupyterLab and Jupyter widgets in analyzing complex high-dimensional datasets, providing insights into how our Earth is changing and what the future might look like. Read more.