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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

By : Abdishakur Hassan, Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan
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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

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By: Abdishakur Hassan, Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan

Overview of this book

Data scientists, who have access to vast data streams, are a bit myopic when it comes to intrinsic and extrinsic location-based data and are missing out on the intelligence it can provide to their models. This book demonstrates effective techniques for using the power of data science and geospatial intelligence to build effective, intelligent data models that make use of location-based data to give useful predictions and analyses. This book begins with a quick overview of the fundamentals of location-based data and how techniques such as Exploratory Data Analysis can be applied to it. We then delve into spatial operations such as computing distances, areas, extents, centroids, buffer polygons, intersecting geometries, geocoding, and more, which adds additional context to location data. Moving ahead, you will learn how to quickly build and deploy a geo-fencing system using Python. Lastly, you will learn how to leverage geospatial analysis techniques in popular recommendation systems such as collaborative filtering and location-based recommendations, and more. By the end of the book, you will be a rockstar when it comes to performing geospatial analysis with ease.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Spatial data processing

We will be discussing three things in this section: taxi zones, spatial joins, and the calculation of distances.

Taxi zones in New York

Analyzing and processing a taxi zone spatial data helps us achieve two objectives:

  • Substitute the missing coordinates for pickup and dropoff locations with the taxi zone's centroid
  • Use the taxi zone as a feature in the model

Visualization of taxi zones

We have provided the shapefile for the taxi zones in the data repository. Shapefiles can be read as (Geo)DataFrames with the Python library known as GeoPandas...

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