In this first installment, we sit down with Matt Gaffner, a solution engineer with DTN. DTN is an Esri partner that provides weather data services and forecasts to customers.
Over the course of our 15-minute discussion, Gaffner provides some fantastic insights that should help provide students and faculty with some guidance on that top skills question.
As Gaffner discusses in depth, GIS has become much more dynamic and has gained many real-time and web-based capabilities over the last few years. If real-time weather alerts based on the real-time proximity of vehicles doesn't illustrate how much GIS has changed in the past few years, I don't know what does. Students who can come to the table with skills in cloud computing and programming will find themselves in high demand.