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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 introduced you to the concept of spatial feature engineering. Recall that spatial feature engineering falls into two classes: summary spatial features and proximity spatial features. These two classes are respectively based on summarizing spatial data based on preexisting spatial relationships, and the distance, or proximity, between observations.

During the chapter, we performed two exercises based on data pertaining to Dollar General stores and its competitor, Family Dollar, and also based on Manhattan Airbnb locations and nearby NYC attractions. Throughout these exercises, we leveraged concepts we introduced you to in previous chapters, such as filtering based on masks, converting pandas DataFrames into GeoDataFrames, and working with projected coordinate reference systems.

Finally, we went over the concept of geospatial magic and the power that geography has as a universal link between data and objects. We hope that you are beginning to see the...