Breathing Life into a Travel Survey
Date
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Presenters
Roland Martin
Presenter Company
Arup
City
Anaheim
Location
us
Event
FME World Tour 2016
Session Type
User
Industry
Commercial
Presentation Details
A client collects an annual commuter travel survey which collects extremely detailed information about their staff and regular visitors. The data was presented to our team as a 250-column Excel spreadsheet with confusingly coded questions and answers, and baffling geographic data. This session will explain how we turned it into a rich, usable database with the help of FME.
Legacy Data is traditional and values the wisdom of the past. He’s the go-to for office lore and frequently reminisces about ‘the early days’. His fax number is still operational and his office shelves are filled with paper files, plus a floppy disk or two (or twenty). Find him by the water cooler solving a Rubik’s cube or recollecting on how things used to be done. Just don’t ask him to download your pdf or move to the cloud.