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Introducing Martin Hughes to the SSP Project Management Team
September 10, 2019 By: Matthew Stuart Martin Hughes

Editor’s Note: Between the interviewer and the interviewee, this post contains higher levels of sarcasm than our typical post. As well, according to them, mild use of correct English… Tell…

no comments | Project Management / SSP Blogs

The Death of Boredom: Using Python to Save Time
By: Stephen Hudak

Boredom doesn’t exist in 2019. It is just about dead. Back in my day I would have to wait in that check out line and squirm. I would have to…

one comment | SSP Blogs

Protecting Lives, Forests and Electric Transmission Lines with Spectral Analysis
By: Geoffrey Towne

Before my GIS career path led me to pipeline and electric utilities, I analyzed moisture stressed vegetation before and during fire seasons in southern Arizona, to possibly identify where the…

one comment | Electric / SSP Blogs / Transmission

The Beginning of Quality
September 9, 2019 By: Troy Corrente

Quality can be defined as the degree of excellence of something.  What brings about that degree of excellence when taken in terms of delivering products and services?  For a starting…

no comments | Quality Assurance / SSP Blogs

Introducing Jill Shadwell to the SSP Project Management Team
September 7, 2019 By: Matthew Stuart Jill Shadwell

I am a fifth generation Californian with many of my family still rooted in the central part of the state.  I have a large family (four siblings) and we are…

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Using Enterprise GIS to Address Tracking and Traceability Requirements
August 13, 2019 By: Ian Martin

Over the past several years, SSP has been a leading voice in the utility and pipeline sectors of the GIS industry advocating for the use of available GIS technology to…

no comments | ArcGIS Enterprise / Esri GIS / Pipeline / SSP Blogs / Tracking and Traceability

CU Preparedness – Part 1: Getting your GIS CUs Ready for WMS Integration
August 12, 2019 By: Joaquin Madrid, Ph.D.

At last, upper management has approved your long-standing proposal to integrate GIS with an Enterprise Work Management System (WMS). Congratulations! You celebrate with your team, and then go back to…

no comments | ArcFM™ / Electric / Pole Management / SSP Blogs

7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to Utility Network
August 11, 2019 By: Stephen Hudak

Assemblies come up again and again when planning for and implementing the move to the UN. The decisions of what should participate in an assembly will get a lot attention—and…

one comment | GIS / SSP Blogs / Utility Network

Using Python for Data Project Setup and Data Cleanup
August 1, 2019 By: Ben Reilly

While Python is commonly used in GIS to develop tools and automate processes, it can also be incredibly useful in another aspect of data handling: raw data processing. Data in…

no comments | GIS / Python / SSP Blogs

Big Sky Country Part 2: Geographic Boogaloo
July 6, 2019 By: Stephen Hudak

According to my logic in Part 1, the area a person can see from a random point in Montana should be greater than the area a person can see from…

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A Match Made in Data Conversion Heaven
June 10, 2019 By: Bethany Costello, Ph.D.

The pairing of the Spec Doc and the Process Document are great assets to the QA/QC portion of any project. When all editors are provided with the same set of…

no comments | Data / Project Management / SSP Blogs

CRM Data Migration Using Jupyter Notebook and the Salesforce API
By: Stephen Hudak Justin Rowsell

A tutorial on migrating our homegrown CRM to Salesforce, using Jupyter Notebook. Giving you a good foundation if you find yourself in similar need of a CRM to Salesforce data…

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