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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

The fundamentals of ESDA

Mapmaking, also known as cartography, is the first step in ESDA. Mapmaking is a blending of art and science. It is an art form in that you’re taking data and representing it in a visual format that is easy to interpret and derive meaning from. Representing data in a visual format is critical for the understanding of both technical and non-technical stakeholders. It is science in that the visuals must be derived from data and they must honor the underlying metadata such as the coordinate reference systems from which they were collected.

Mapmaking is not a standard practice in more traditional EDA, which is traditionally focused on understanding basic statistics of the data such as mean and standard deviation. EDA also focuses on understanding the distribution of the data, dealing with missing data, identifying outliers, and understanding the correlations among variables. In this chapter, you’ll work with data and will be conducting the work...