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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide Effective techniques for performing smarter geospatial analysis using location intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809411
Length 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdishakur Hassan Abdishakur Hassan
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Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan
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Building the model

Let's build the final model using a random forest regressor. A random forest is a universal machine learning technique, that is, it can handle different kinds of data; it could be a category (classification), a continuous variable (regression), or features of any kind, such an image, price, time, post codes, and so on (that is, both structured and unstructured data). It doesn't generally overfit too much, and it is very easy to stop it from overfitting. For these reasons, random forest is a versatile ML technique which we can effectively use to solve our problem.

Validation data and error metrics

Our initial step is choosing a suitable size for validation data. Before delineating the validation...

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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide
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