AI shifts spatial data usage from data science to general business teams
Gary Little · Foursquare’s Remarkable Transformation Into Leading Location Intelligence Platform | Gary Little · Apr 3, 2024 · at 20:55
Gary Little is the CEO of Foursquare. He explains how AI interfaces allow non-technical business departments to query complex geospatial datasets directly.
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“Using these techniques just completely changes the aperture of who our customer is, right? Customer on the planet with a physical location, which is most businesses. Inside the business, it's now not the data science department. It's literally the finance department, the sales department, market department, everybody, right?”
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