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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

Spatial Feature Engineering

As we kick off this chapter, it’s helpful for us to recall the data science pipeline and identify where we are within it at this stage of the book. Take a look at Figure 7.1, the data science pipeline.

Figure 7.1 – Data science pipeline

Figure 7.1 – Data science pipeline

In Chapter 5, Exploratory Data Visualization, and Chapter 6, Hypothesis Testing and Spatial Randomness, you focused on exploring some datasets and testing for spatial relationships. Recall that in the New York Airbnb dataset, you identified that there was spatial autocorrelation present at both a global and local level. In this chapter, you’ll be focused on the part of the data science pipeline that we call processing, as highlighted in red in Figure 7.1. Other texts may refer to this step in the data science pipeline as data engineering or feature engineering. Within this step of the pipeline, your focus is on manipulating and transforming raw data into features that are...