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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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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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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide
Published in: May 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789809411
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