Introducing the business scenario

For this business scenario, we can imagine being a ML expert in New York City. Among all the activities that the city should perform, a census of the trees and verifying their condition is one of the most time-consuming.

The trees are spread across different areas of New York City and the process of collecting information about each tree is performed manually by volunteers or New York City employees. After the collection of the information, the data is stored in a database and made publicly available through a BigQuery public dataset for further analyses (https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/city-of-new-york/nyc-tree-census).

In the following figure, we can see a picture from Central Park, one of the areas with more trees in New York City:

Figure 6.1 – Trees in Central Park, New York City

In order to support and accelerate the job of the people in charge of classifying the trees and assessing their...