Christmas Crisis - Saving Santa with Pandas and GeoPandas.

Saving Santa with Pandas and GeoPandas

Finally! I know! A Data Science Project as Festive as the Season!

Data Science has many applications; so many in fact, it is nigh impossible to even be considered proficient in half of them! But, that shouldn’t dissuade us from trying to become as equipped for the future as possible. I challenge you to take on this project and have a once in a lifetime opportunity to serve as Santa’s “pocket” Data Scientist!

As a precursor to this project, note that this project is designed to be a challenge project. You are given the tools and supplies, but the method is left up to you! While the ‘answer key’ is provided on Github, you should have everything you need in the data to figure it out. This project also serves to introduce you to some tools you may not be familiar with, yet.

What you will need (or better yet, what you should be prepared to teach yourself 😉):

• A good understanding of Data Science oriented Python libraries
• A basic understanding of GeoPandas
• A love of Christmas!

What you will learn:

• How to merge non-standardized data with a Universal Standard Identifier (Placekey)
• How to find points within polygons using Geopandas
• How to filter the data to determine the best possible outcome (min/max)
• How to merge data and determine foot traffic to given POI (SafeGraph)
• How tosave** Santa** and Christmas

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Christmas Crisis - Saving Santa with Pandas and GeoPandas.

Saving Santa with Pandas and GeoPandas

Finally! I know! A Data Science Project as Festive as the Season!

Data Science has many applications; so many in fact, it is nigh impossible to even be considered proficient in half of them! But, that shouldn’t dissuade us from trying to become as equipped for the future as possible. I challenge you to take on this project and have a once in a lifetime opportunity to serve as Santa’s “pocket” Data Scientist!

As a precursor to this project, note that this project is designed to be a challenge project. You are given the tools and supplies, but the method is left up to you! While the ‘answer key’ is provided on Github, you should have everything you need in the data to figure it out. This project also serves to introduce you to some tools you may not be familiar with, yet.

What you will need (or better yet, what you should be prepared to teach yourself 😉):

• A good understanding of Data Science oriented Python libraries
• A basic understanding of GeoPandas
• A love of Christmas!

What you will learn:

• How to merge non-standardized data with a Universal Standard Identifier (Placekey)
• How to find points within polygons using Geopandas
• How to filter the data to determine the best possible outcome (min/max)
• How to merge data and determine foot traffic to given POI (SafeGraph)
• How tosave** Santa** and Christmas

#christmas #data-science #gis #pandas #projects

Python Pandas Objects - Pandas Series and Pandas Dataframe

In this post, we will learn about pandas’ data structures/objects. Pandas provide two type of data structures:-

Pandas Series

Pandas Series is a one dimensional indexed data, which can hold datatypes like integer, string, boolean, float, python object etc. A Pandas Series can hold only one data type at a time. The axis label of the data is called the index of the series. The labels need not to be unique but must be a hashable type. The index of the series can be integer, string and even time-series data. In general, Pandas Series is nothing but a column of an excel sheet with row index being the index of the series.

Pandas Dataframe

Pandas dataframe is a primary data structure of pandas. Pandas dataframe is a two-dimensional size mutable array with both flexible row indices and flexible column names. In general, it is just like an excel sheet or SQL table. It can also be seen as a python’s dict-like container for series objects.

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Pandas in Python

Pandas is used for data manipulation, analysis and cleaning.

What are Data Frames and Series?

Dataframe is a two dimensional, size mutable, potentially heterogeneous tabular data.

It contains rows and columns, arithmetic operations can be applied on both rows and columns.

Series is a one dimensional label array capable of holding data of any type. It can be integer, float, string, python objects etc. Panda series is nothing but a column in an excel sheet.

How to create dataframe and series?

s = pd.Series([1,2,3,4,56,np.nan,7,8,90])

print(s)

How to create a dataframe by passing a numpy array?

1. d= pd.date_range(‘20200809’,periods=15)
2. print(d)
3. df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(15,4), index= d, columns = [‘A’,’B’,’C’,’D’])
4. print(df)

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WORKING WITH GROUPBY IN PANDAS

In my last post, I mentioned the groupby technique  in Pandas library. After creating a groupby object, it is limited to make calculations on grouped data using groupby’s own functions. For example, in the last lesson, we were able to use a few functions such as mean or sum on the object we created with groupby. But with the aggregate () method, we can use both the functions we have written and the methods used with groupby. I will show how to work with groupby in this post.

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Reading and Writing Data in Pandas

In my last post, I mentioned summarizing and computing descriptive statistics  using the Pandas library. To work with data in Pandas, it is necessary to load the data set first. Reading the data set is one of the important stages of data analysis. In this post, I will talk about reading and writing data.

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