Lesson 4 overview

During this lesson we will learn a few really useful and commonly used GIS functionalities using Geopandas and PySAL / mapclassify packages:

Data classification and re-classification

Learning goals

After this lesson’s lesson you should be able to:

• learn about different classification schemes
• reclassify data based on different criteria (custom or common classifiers).
• merge data, i.e. join spatial and non-spatial datasets together, based on some common identifier.

Sources

The materials make use of documentation of Geopandas, Pandas and Pysal’s mapclassify package.

The lesson reuses materials from Dani Arribas-Bel from the University of Liverpool, under CC BY-SA 3.0 from Geographic Data Science in Python with PySAL.