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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

By : Abdishakur Hassan, Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan
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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

By: Abdishakur Hassan, Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan

Overview of this book

Data scientists, who have access to vast data streams, are a bit myopic when it comes to intrinsic and extrinsic location-based data and are missing out on the intelligence it can provide to their models. This book demonstrates effective techniques for using the power of data science and geospatial intelligence to build effective, intelligent data models that make use of location-based data to give useful predictions and analyses. This book begins with a quick overview of the fundamentals of location-based data and how techniques such as Exploratory Data Analysis can be applied to it. We then delve into spatial operations such as computing distances, areas, extents, centroids, buffer polygons, intersecting geometries, geocoding, and more, which adds additional context to location data. Moving ahead, you will learn how to quickly build and deploy a geo-fencing system using Python. Lastly, you will learn how to leverage geospatial analysis techniques in popular recommendation systems such as collaborative filtering and location-based recommendations, and more. By the end of the book, you will be a rockstar when it comes to performing geospatial analysis with ease.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

We started off with creating a simple graph using the networkx library and ended up by creating isochrones from real-world road network data. We also explored the various functionalities offered by the networkx library to solve graph problems such as shortest path and shortest path length. We also went into depth to understand the geometric and data transformations required to translate a GeoDataFrame into a graph data structure. The best part of the entire chapter was that we were able to do all of these using just open source data and tools. Just by leveraging the skills we gained so far, we were able to create many insights that are invaluable to a wide range of industries.

In the next chapter, we will transition into building location recommender systems using the concepts we have dealt with so far, as well as integrating it with state-of-the-art machine learning...