Demystifying Data Science
& Putting it to Work
Guido Stein
Geospatial Data Alchemist
Applied Geographics, Inc.
Spring NEARC 2018
Hands up!!!
Geographic
Information
System
First Class Data Type
1992
Oracle 7 adds SDO
2001
PostGIS adds spatial types to PostGRES
2008
SQL Server adds Spatial Data Types
2017
MongoDB adds GeoJSON
What does a GIS Analyst do?
- Data Collection
- Data Cleanup
- Data Analysis
What does a Data Scientist do?
- Data collection
- Data cleanup
- Data analysis
You are a Data Scientist!
Demystifying Data Science
- Definitions
- Tools
- Resources
Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
Science
Science
- Problem
- Idea
- Iterate
- Solution or Understanding
- Reproducible
Data
Structured Data
Semi-Structured Data
Unstructured Data
Big Data
Analysis
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Question
Understanding
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Synthesis
Analytics
Business Information (BI)
Data Science
"Data science is a multidisciplinary field that combines the latest innovations in advanced analytics, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, with high-performance computing and visualizations"
Chambers, Michele, et al. Breaking Data Science Open. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2017.
ArcGIS API for Python
DEMO
[paid online course] Learning Data Science: the Basics
[book] Data Smart
[web site] Data science - O'Reilly
[free web site] freeCodeCamp Python Guide
[book] Python Data Science Handbook
[book] Data Science Essentials in Python
[paid online training] Python Data Science
[web site] Try Jupyter
[web site] Cartoframes Documentation
[notebook] Cartoframes Example Notebook
[web site] ArcGIS API for Python
Demystifying Data Science
By Guido Stein (AppGeo)
Demystifying Data Science
A presentation about data science from the prospective of a GIS guy
