New Data Interoperability Training Courses (APIs & Generative AI)

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Hi everyone,

Please accept my apologies, I know it isn't good practice to post these things through this forum (I wont make a habit of it) but I wanted to get the word out. Following the success of our free technical session (link here with a recording) we have launched a couple of new Esri Data Interoperability training courses that are hosted through the Esri UK training platform. Both are one-day, virtual, hands-on courses designed to get you familiar with using APIs and AI within your data workflows.

Using APIs in Esri Data Interoperability Workflows (1 Day, Virtual)

Who it is for: Intermediate users (GIS Analysts, Developers, and Technical Leads) looking to introduce orchestration capabilities into their ETL workflows.

Content: Demystifies APIs and teaches you how to connect workspaces to web services like ArcGIS Online and third-party REST APIs. Covers using the HTTPCaller transformer, parsing JSON/GeoJSON responses and building reusable Custom Transformers.

Applying Generative AI in Esri Data Interoperability Workflows (1 Day, Virtual)

Who it is for: Technical specialists with a solid existing foundational in Data Interop.

Content: Focuses on the practical application of GenAI. You will learn how to integrate LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and local models), perform PDF document extraction, apply text/sentiment analysis, and use custom image classification to turn unstructured content into clean, structured data.

Apologies again for using this platform to share these. If you have any questions about these courses please let me know. We will also look to run more free skill booster sessions in future as well as the evolution of AI continues - hopefully one relating to embeddings would be a fun one to do!

Oli82uk · Answer

@BruceHarold thanks for sharing on linkedin. Embeddings are indeed an area of growing interest at the moment and we therefore had to include them in the AI course. There are two custom transformers that we have created in the FME Hub that maybe of interest to you, they will also be featured in the training:

OllamaEmbeddingsConnector  and GoogleEmbeddings

They allow you to create embeddings either locally using Ollama or via Google Gemini's newly released API service. The Google one is quite fancy because it is multimodal, so now with embeddings you can directly match text, pdfs, images all together - pretty wild times!

bharold · Answer

@Oli82uk posts like this are welcome!  I'll amplify the post on LinkedIn.  You caught my eye with the mention of embeddings - exactly what I'm looking at right now, except I'm not using ArcGIS Data Interoperability, I'm going Pythonic, so feel free to take a run using Data Interop and we can compare notes!