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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

Summary

In this chapter, we’ve covered a variety of topics related to geospatial data. First, we introduced you to the two types of geospatial data: vector and raster data. Vectors represent physical geography via points, lines, and polygons. Rasters represent physical geography as a continuous grid of pixels.

We then introduced you to the various types of file formats you may encounter when working with vector- or raster-based data. When it comes to vector data, we covered shapefiles, GEOJSON, and KML files. For raster-based data, we introduced you to GeoTIFFs and georeferenced JPEGs, and PNG files.

After our discussion of geospatial data formats, we walked through two different types of geospatial databases: the PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database, as well as the geodatabase provided by Esri.

We concluded the chapter with broad coverage of open source geospatial data on topics of human geography, physical geography, and country- and area-specific data. Given the variety...