Demystifying Data Science

& Putting it to Work 

Guido Stein

Geospatial Data Alchemist

Applied Geographics, Inc.

Spring NEARC 2018

Hands up!!!

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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

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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.

en.wikipedia.org

Science

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Science

• Problem
• Idea
• Iterate
• Solution or Understanding
• Reproducible

Data

Structured Data

data.boston.gov

Semi-Structured Data

geojson.io

Unstructured Data

Big Data

Analysis 

Data

Data

Data

Data

Data

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.

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ArcGIS API for Python

DEMO

CROSS YOUR FINGERS

Hold on tight

[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