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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

Using a cloud-based GPU database like MapD Core, and the Immerse visualization studio will pay dividends when designing and implementing a GIS. It offers speed and cloud reliability to both tabular and spatial queries and allows the data to be shared in interactive dashboards (which rely on JavaScript technologies such as D3.js and MapBox GL JavaScript) that are simple to create and publish. 

With the MapD Python module, pymapd, cloud data can become an integrated part of a query engine. Data can be pushed to the cloud or pulled down to use locally. Analyses can be performed rapidly, using the power of GPU parallelization. It's worth installing MapD on a virtual server in the cloud, or even locally, to test out the potential of the ...

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