Scot Frank
Director of Product Management at Foursquare
Scot Frank is the Director of Product Management at Foursquare where he focuses on geospatial visualization and analytics. He is extremely interested in the intersection of technology and society, and how technology can drive social and environmental change. Prior to Foursquare, he served as Head of Product, Machine Learning & Data Platform, at Niantic, where he helped create real-world location-based gaming and technology platforms. He also worked at Google, developing early online-to-offline attribution solutions and mobile rewards incentive programs for people across emerging markets. Scot received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and enjoys spending his time hiking, climbing, and skiing in the backcountry.
Watch on-demand: February 21
Data powered businesses throughout the pandemic and will continue strong into 2023. But companies will take data one step further by focusing efforts to create more robust data visualization solutions, or optimizing current tools with these capabilities. In this session, Foursquare’s Director of Product Management Scot Frank will share how Studio provides a highly flexible platform designed to visualize and analyze large-scale geospatial data at the speed of business. Within Studio, users can visualize complex movement patterns over time with the support of Hex Tiles, a proprietary next-generation tiling system that not only unifies diverse spatial datasets and conducts analytics, but also visualizes and explores big data on a planetary scale.