This Thursday we’ll be meeting at North Seattle College for a presentation by Hal Mueller: Using LLMs to enhance your FOSS geodata workflow:

From Hal:

Modern LLMs such as ChatGPT and Claude can be effective partners as you assemble and analyze open source geodata, but you need to keep them on a short leash and maintain an understanding of the problem you’re trying to solve.

We will review case studies you can apply to your work today. You’ll learn how to use LLMs to construct scripts for data download, webscraping, and data cleanup; to update an obsolete codebase; and to understand the legacy code you just inherited and add features and automated tests.

We will look at some LLM blind alleys and explore how to recover from them.

Code examples are in Python, C++, Mapserver, and Swift.

When: Thursday, Nov. 5; meet and mingle at 6:30 pm; talk starts at 7 pm

Where: North Seattle College
9600 College Way N, Seattle, WA 98103, United States
Room LB 1105 in the library

Afterwards we go to the nearby Watershed Pub and Kitchen, which is all friendly to all ages.

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