Dewey Dunnington

Dewey Dunnington (Ph.D., P.Geo.) is a software engineer and geoscientist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a software engineer he works on scaling spatial data science using Apache Sedona and Apache Arrow at Wherobots. Dewey is a co-creator of GeoArrow, nanoarrow, and a contributor to the Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) project. As a geoscientist, he has worked in contaminated site remediation, taught Applied Geomorphology, and has authored more than a dozen articles on lake water and sediment geochemistry. Dewey is an Apache Arrow and Apache Sedona Project Management Committee member, an RStudio-certified tidyverse instructor, an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (Doctoral) recipient, and maintainer of dozens of R, Python, C, and C++ libraries at the intersection of geoscience, geospatial data, and enterprise data connectivity.


Sessions

11-02
09:00
180min
Wrangling uncomfortably large spatial data with Python and SedonaDB
Dewey Dunnington

Learn how analytical databases make the most of your laptop to make existing workflows faster and larger workflows possible using SedonaDB, a database built for spatial from the ground up.

Technical
Carr
11-03
14:00
25min
SedonaDB: A fast, friction-free spatial database for Python + R
Dewey Dunnington, Jia Yu

The Python and R bindings for SedonaDB were purpose-built to accelerate performance-critical spatial analyses or scale existing analyses alongside existing free and open source tools.

Technical
Tofanelli