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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

Exploratory Data Visualization

In Part 1, The Essentials of Geospatial Data Science, we provided you with a framework for working with spatial data and progressing through a spatial data science workflow. As a refresher, that framework looked like the one displayed in Figure 5.1:

Figure 5.1 – Data science pipeline

Figure 5.1 – Data science pipeline

In Part 2, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis, the content will focus on the first three steps in the framework: Collecting, Cleaning, and Exploring. For the most part, the collecting step will largely be completed for you, but that will not be the case in the real world. When it comes to the cleaning step, it is often said that data scientists can spend as much as 80-90% of their time cleaning data. Even though we’ve collected most of the data for you, the data has not yet been cleaned, as learning to clean data—as you can see—is a much-needed and valuable skill to learn.

While the collecting and cleaning stages...