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Scott Hicks
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Senior Test Engineer

Scott Hicks has been with SAS for 5 years testing and supporting geospatial and mapping technologies. Prior to SAS, he tested and automated a variety of software applications in the Financial Services, Networking and Communication industries. With a background in Electrical Engineering and a Graduate certificate in GIS, he has close to 20 years industry experience.

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Why Maps matter: Lessons learned from London's 1854 Cholera outbreak

The catch phrase “everything happens somewhere” is increasingly common these days.  That “somewhere” translates into a location on the Earth; a latitude and longitude.  When one of these “somewhere’s” is combined with many other “somewhere’s”, you quickly have a robust spatial data set that becomes actionable with the right analytic