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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789809411

Length 170 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

SciPy

Concepts

Data Science

Authors (2):

Abdishakur Hassan

Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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1. Introducing Location Intelligence

2. Consuming Location Data Like a Data Scientist FREE CHAPTER

3. Performing Spatial Operations Like a Pro

4. Making Sense of Humongous Location Datasets

5. Nudging Check-Ins with Geofences

6. Let's Build a Routing Engine

7. Getting Location Recommender Systems

Let's Build a Routing Engine

"Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein

Despite the possibility of flying cars in the near future, right now, you still need to use the road or rail to get from point A to point B on land. I am pretty sure that you have never once deleted the Maps app from your smartphone. So, what makes the Maps app so indispensable that you can't imagine living in the pre-Google Maps era ...

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Authors (2)

Abdishakur Hassan

Abdishakur Hassan is a geographic information systems (GIS) expert and consultant with over 5 years of experience working with UN Habitat. He holds an MSc in geoinformation science and earth observations. During his tenure as a GIS expert, Abdishakur has developed fully fledged GIS applications in the urban planning and land administration domains. He is interested in all things related to geospatial data science.

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Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan

Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan is a geospatial data scientist, innovator, and author of a book titled ArcGIS for JavaScript developers. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and has over 8 years of work experience. He has built patented technologies and products in the geospatial domain and has coached teams on leveraging mapping and spatial analytics tools for solving pertinent business problems. He is adept at computational geometry, especially in graph networks and in geospatial inferencing. He is a DAAD scholar and a winner of the UN-Habitat special jury award. He is keen on developing intelligent and ubiquitous mapping systems by integrating ML and DL techniques with GIS. He is also a novelist and a certified UAV pilot.

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