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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

Developing Spatial Regression Models

In this chapter, we will be discussing regression models and how they can be improved by incorporating spatial structures. Spatial structures can be an important facet of building into traditional regression models, but they are often overlooked. It is important to consider spatial structures and to build them into a regression model when the process that generated the source data is geographic in nature.

To understand this better, it’s helpful to think through a potential real-world situation. Imagine that you operate a chain of high-end furniture stores and you’re trying to identify the best location for a future storefront that would maximize sales. Sales at your existing stores could be impacted by the number of cars that pass by the store every day, the proximity to other furniture stores, the number of new housing developments in nearby neighborhoods, and the affluence of the population in the vicinity. Each of these potentially...