Week 3: Geospatial Data Analysis and GeoPandas

Topics

• Vector data and introduction to GeoPandas
• Spatial relationships and joins
• Demo: 311 requests by neighborhood in Philadelphia
• Exercise: property assessments by neighborhood

General Background Reading

The Python Data Science Handbook

• Chapter 2: Numpy
• Chapter 3: Pandas
• Chapter 4: matplotlib

Documentation

• GeoPandas

Further Reading / References

• Comparing Map Projections
• West Wing and the Gall-Peters Projections
• xkcd Comic on Projections
• The True Size Of
• Coordinate Reference Systems
• EPSG Codes
• Cartopy and Matplotlib
• Managing Projections
• Converting DataFrames to GeoDataFrames