Bobby 
Shackelton
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My Journey With Bloomberg

Cast as part of Bloomberg's "Face the Data. Change the World." campaign.

Head of Geospatial Products

2015 - 2022

Bloomberg recruited me in 2015 to envision, develop, and launch an enterprise geospatial business and product, serving hundreds of thousands of clients and supporting every facet of the Bloomberg organization. 


The section below highlights the diverse subject matter and key stakeholders I collaborated with throughout this journey.

Bloomberg TV

Bloomberg Philantropies

Bloomberg News

BTV<GO>

Designed a real-time world equity index map in conjunction with the grand opening of Bloomberg's TV Studio in London. Aired Daily.

Bloomberg News

Bloomberg Philantropies

Bloomberg News

MAPS<GO>

Launched an internal map publishing tool for the Bloomberg Newsroom, supporting titles, descriptions, annotations, and sharing capabilities

Bloomberg Philantropies

Bloomberg Philantropies

Bloomberg Philantropies

MAP FISH<GO>

Led the integration of Global Fishing Watch data into the Bloomberg Terminal in support of Bloomberg Philanthropies. 

Covid-19

Extreme Weather

Bloomberg Philantropies

MAP VIRUS<GO>

Released the first COVID-19 tracking app on Wall Street, in January 2020 when only 7,000 cases were reported globally.

Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather

MAP WEATHER<GO>

Integrated real-time weather analytics to track cyclones, fires, earthquakes, temperatures, snowfall, and the exposures to company assets.

Supply Chains

Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather

MAP FACTORIES<GO>

Collected and surfaced physical asset data owned by every major company in the world, discovered through intuitive searching capabilities.

Commodities

Automated News & Alerts

Commodities

MAP SHIP<GO>

Streamed real-time maritime shipping data - tracking oil, agriculture, and cargo shipments,  deriving insights at port locations.

ESG

Automated News & Alerts

Commodities

MAP CLIMATE<GO>

First to integrate climate data into the Bloomberg Terminal, following work alongside the U.N. for defining physical climate risk methodologies.

Automated News & Alerts

Automated News & Alerts

Automated News & Alerts

MAP ALERTS<GO>

Developed real-time alerting and automated news stories based on weather exposures of company locations - derived from geospatial technology.

Elections

World Markets

Automated News & Alerts

MAP VOTE<GO>

Supported Bloomberg TV and News to provide real-time election maps for major elections in the United States and the United Kingdom. Aired Live.

Mortgages

World Markets

World Markets

CMAP<GO>

Developed seamless searching capabilities for Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, highlighting which loans were at risk of default.

World Markets

World Markets

World Markets

MAP MARKETS<GO>

Launched Bloomberg's most real-time map solution to date, providing sub-second updates to the map based on world equity indices.

Bobby displayed an extraordinary amount of knowledge and passion in building a first class product.


Ted Merz, Former Head of News Product, Bloomberg LP

Publications

Bloomberg

Waters Technology

The Economist

Bloomberg Markets

Datanami

Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion

Personal Highlights

My first map on TV - back when I had to build them on the studio floor

    Learn about Bobby's Climate & Nature work Supporting Google

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