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Geospatial Analysis with SQL
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Geospatial Analysis with SQL

by Bonny P McClain
October 2023
Beginner to intermediate
234 pages
4h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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An Overview of Spatial Statistics

In this chapter, we are going to build a story by adding new spatial queries. pgAdmin is a great resource for exploring our data, executing queries, and using advanced database tools (as covered in more detail in Chapter 7, Exploring PostGIS for Geographic Analysis), but I usually work with QGIS when it comes to using spatial analysis and data visualization.

Census data is notoriously complex but it is worth understanding a few straightforward tasks to render the available files, as this is informative and critical to understanding the impacts of urbanization, changing population demographics, and resource scarcity (to name just a few).

In the last chapter, you were introduced to a few spatial methods such ...

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