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Author: Arif Masrur
Arif Masrur is a senior solution engineer at Esri with expertise in advanced spatial analysis and data science. He has a PhD in geography and geographic information systems science from Penn State, and loves transforming space-time data into actionable intelligence.
Using ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine on Amazon EMR to predict rideshare demand
Rideshare demand prediction is a well-explored topic in academia and industry, with abundant online resources offering diverse modeling frameworks tailored to different geographic contexts. A challenge with rideshare demand prediction, however, is that the trip data required to calibrate or train models can be exceptionally large. In this post, we explore the challenges of big data analytics and showcase how ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine, a spatial analytics library for the Apache Spark environment, can be used on Amazon EMR to effectively address these problems.