Geospatial Data Science Expert & Author; Public Health & Climate Analytics Specialist; Author of "Python for Geospatial Data Analysis"
Bonny P. McClain Biography
Dr. Bonny P. McClain is a geospatial analyst, author, and public speaker specializing in data science, climate, and social equity. McClain facilitates narratives at the intersection of geospatial data science, climate, and sustainability, focusing on the impact of built infrastructure on global health outcomes. She applies advanced data analytics, including data engineering and geo-enrichment, to discussions of poverty, race, and gender, with research targeting social determinants, racial equity, and intersectionality to highlight the metrics contributing to poverty.
McClain's expertise centers on public health and social inequities, leveraging open-source tools such as QGIS, PostgreSQL, and Python to generate insights. She frequently speaks at industry events, using the city as an operational unit and employing open-source solutions to analyze urban form, morphometrics, and social demographic layers, as well as vulnerabilities related to climate risk and change.
McClain is the author of "Python for Geospatial Data Analysis: Theory, Tools, and Practice for Location Intelligence" and "Geospatial Analysis with SQL: A Hands-On Guide to Performing Geospatial Analysis by Unlocking the Syntax of Spatial SQL." She is also working on a book with Locate Press, "Geospatial Data Science & the Art of Storytelling." These publications aim to make geospatial tools and methodologies accessible to data professionals, scientists, and policymakers.
McClain's speaking engagements include a geospatial keynote at Data Day Texas, a session on open source solutions for environmental racism, a workshop at NASA Langley Research Center, and a keynote address at GIS Day for Los Angeles County. At the Spatial Data Science Conference in New York, she presented three-dimensional, place-based stories on biodiversity loss, climate pressures, finite resources, and urban growth. McClain is a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and is affiliated with 500 Women Scientists, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Bonny P. McClain Speaking Topics
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Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Data Conversations: Co-Creating Compelling Narratives Highlighting Quantitative Storytelling
This isn’t the marketing side of story – this is the normative and evidence-based side of merging qualitative and quantitative uncertainties to hold tensions in a space designed to mobilize diverse knowledge and value systems.
Although Bonny is a huge advocate of the phrase, “The Map is Not the Territory” she recognizes the power of visualizing spatial relationships and minimizing isolated domains such as land-use, water resources, energy, sustainability and built infrastructure in favor of the integrated narratives required for systems thinking.
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Decoding Climate Science: What AI’s Energy Needs Mean for Our Planet
Through multidisciplinary analysis encompassing economic, social, demographic, biophysical and ecological variables, we unravel the metabolic patterns of cities. Utilizing open source solutions integrated with satellite imagery we will visualize data, maps and interactive graphics spotlighting the built infrastructure as the crucial interface between production, consumption, and the energy required to further our questionable “growth at any cost” world narrative.
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Bonny P. McClain is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Data Conversations: Co-Creating Compelling Narratives Highlighting Quantitative Storytelling, Decoding Climate Science: What AI’s Energy Needs Mean for Our Planet, Understanding Sustainability and Environmental Limits: Visualizing How Economic Activities Impact Ecosystems, Becoming Effective Storytellers in the World of AI and Climate Risk , Artificial Intelligence and Understanding the Complex Interactions and Dynamic Shifts in Ecosystem Balance and How Activities and Technology Influence Eco-Geomorphic Conceptual Frameworks. The estimated speaking fee range to book Bonny P. McClain for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Bonny P. McClain generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Mutale Nkonde, Joanna Peña-Bickley, Asha Saxena, Sharon Gai and Karen Palmer. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Bonny P. McClain for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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