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Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

By : David S. Jordan
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Book Image

Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

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By: David S. Jordan

Overview of this book

Data scientists, when presented with a myriad of data, can often lose sight of how to present geospatial analyses in a meaningful way so that it makes sense to everyone. Using Python to visualize data helps stakeholders in less technical roles to understand the problem and seek solutions. The goal of this book is to help data scientists and GIS professionals learn and implement geospatial data science workflows using Python. Throughout this book, you’ll uncover numerous geospatial Python libraries with which you can develop end-to-end spatial data science workflows. You’ll learn how to read, process, and manipulate spatial data effectively. With data in hand, you’ll move on to crafting spatial data visualizations to better understand and tell the story of your data through static and dynamic mapping applications. As you progress through the book, you’ll find yourself developing geospatial AI and ML models focused on clustering, regression, and optimization. The use cases can be leveraged as building blocks for more advanced work in a variety of industries. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to tackle random data, find meaningful correlations, and make geospatial data models.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1:The Essentials of Geospatial Data Science
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Chapter 1: Introducing Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Data Science
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Part 2: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
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Part 3: Geospatial Modeling Case Studies

Collecting geodemographic data for modeling

Before you start developing models, it is critical that you gather, clean, explore, and process data in a way that will lead to the most effective clustering models. You may recall that these four steps are the first four steps in the data science pipeline we’ve discussed throughout this book. To begin, you’ll leverage the Census API to collect geodemographic data.

Extracting data using the Census API

The clustering exercise that you’ll work through later on in this chapter focuses on building out geodemographic clusters for New York City (NYC). To do this, you’ll first need to collect data utilizing the US Census Bureau API. To pull data via this API, you’ll need to request an API key by visiting https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html. Requesting an API key and pulling data from the Census Bureau is free and open to the public. After requesting a key, you will be given a unique 40-digit alphanumeric...