Applied Geospatial Data Science with Python

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Spatial Feature Engineering

As we kick off this chapter, it’s helpful for us to recall the data science pipeline and identify where we are within it at this stage of the book. Take a look at Figure 7.1, the data science pipeline.

Figure 7.1 – Data science pipeline

In Chapter 5, Exploratory Data Visualization, and Chapter 6, Hypothesis Testing and Spatial Randomness, you focused on exploring some datasets and testing for spatial relationships. Recall that in the New York Airbnb dataset, you identified that there was spatial autocorrelation present at both a global and local level. In this chapter, you’ll be focused on the part of the data ...