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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

Ethical spatial data science

When working in data science, GIS, or spatial data science, one thing that you should keep in mind is how to properly use your data in an ethical and responsible way. Interest in the topic of ethics is growing rapidly as companies and organizations must grapple with the meteoric rise of data as one of the most valuable and abundant resources of the modern age. Technological resources are also ever improving our ability to work with large datasets and derive meaning from complex and disparate sources. These technological advantages are not without risks, as the ability to deanonymize sensitive data and the growing number of data hacking incidents where confidential personal details have been made public are something that should keep data practitioners, executives, and leaders up at night.

As a data practitioner, you should be aware that not all data is the same and that data is only as good as the person and process that generates and collects the data...