This course covers the basics of the python language, the python language, and the core python packages for data analysis, especially of geospatial data. The goal of the course is to provide a broad introduction to the capabilities of python and how all the various packages work together. This will provide a starting point for deeper exploration on your own or in future courses.
Introduction to python
Object oriented python
Packages and modules
Unit tests
Jupyter notebooks
Numpy
Matplotlib
Pandas
Fiona and shapely
Geopandas
Rasterio
Geocoding
Goals
- An introduction to the language and its core principles.
- An introduction to object oriented programming in python.
- Finding and using third party python modules.
- Working with the operating system
- Working with files
- Working with databases
- Reading spatial data with GDAL/OGR
- Visualizing data with Matplotlib and other tools
- Data Analysis with pandas and geopandas
- Jupyter Notebooks
Prerequisites
- This course is not a beginner programming course. I assume you have some programming knowledge, i.e. what . variable is, what an expression is, what a loop is, what a function is, etc. But i do go over the basics of how all those things are implemented in