Skyhook Chooses OmniSci to Support Mobility Indexing In Next Phase of COVID-19 Response
Doors are opening and people are beginning to return to stores, salons and restaurants. Using the OmniSci accelerated analytics platform, location intelligence leader Skyhook is assisting the effort, helping businesses and public agencies combine mobility data with data from a myriad of other sources to better understand population movement as the reopening process is implemented.
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Skyhook operates the world’s largest independent location network consisting of 5.1 billion geolocated Wi-Fi hotspots, 200 million cell towers and a global portfolio of actionable venues. By aggregating data that is generated by this network together with other data sources and then analyzing it through the OmniSci platform, Skyhook creates mobility indexes that anonymously measure itinerancy (how much devices move around) and endemism (how local a population remains). These measures are critical factors in determining how effective policies are at keeping people distant, and therefore how quickly parts of the country can reopen.
From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Skyhook’s solution has been used to show how well stay-at-home orders were—or were not—working. Its ability to query, filter and render billions of rows of data in milliseconds, thanks to OmniSci’s parallel processing capabilities, permit global-to-local data analysis at local resolutions and data densities that are far higher than other platforms. This provides insight into this next critical phase of the public health response.
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“The models we build require the ability to analyze entire, very large datasets. We can’t afford to miss the needle because the haystack was downsampled or aggregated,” said Rich Sutton, head of Skyhook’s Geo team. “Only OmniSci has the capability to interrogate these massive datasets at the speed and scale our customers require.”
OmniSci, the world’s fastest analytics platform, uniquely harnesses the massive parallel processing capabilities of modern GPU and CPU hardware. Comprised of a lightning-fast SQL engine, rendering engine and interactive visualization system, OmniSci allows data scientists and data analysts to combine, filter and plot data into interactive maps, answering complex questions at the speed of curiosity.
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