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Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

By : David S. Jordan
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Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

4.6 (11)
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

Estimating unknowns with spatial interpolation

Over the course of time, you may be presented with a geospatial dataset with a sparse number of observations that do not cover the entire study area that you’re interested in analyzing. As such, you may be looking for a way to fill in the missing geographies. Spatial interpolation is a process that uses known values from observations to estimate values at other unknown locations. This process is common in a number of scientific fields, such as meteorology and wildlife conservation. When it comes to meteorology, weather data is provided from a handful of weather stations in a given geography. From that information, meteorologists are asked to make predictions about what the weather will be at other locations.

There are many methods for performing spatial interpolation, including Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation, Triangular Information Network (TIN) interpolation, and Kriging-based interpolation methods, to name a...

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