PyDataMCR - Episode 1 - Geospatial data with Rebecca Davey and David Mulcahy

Welcome to the official PyDataMCR podcast, In this episode we are joined by Rebecca and David from INRIX. We zip through topics including GPS tracking, Hidden Markov Models and open source tools.

Show notes:

Libraries:

Geopandas - http://geopandas.org/

Dockerfile for geopandas - https://hub.docker.com/r/jaspajjr/geopandas

Folium - https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/

HMM-learn - https://hmmlearn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Valhalla - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Valhalla

Graphhopper - https://www.graphhopper.com/

Openstreetmap - https://www.openstreetmap.org

Openstreetmap wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Mapping Mobility in Stockport - https://bit.ly/2TZFal5

HMM for mapmatching -  https://bit.ly/2Nqb5ZL

Tech heroes:

Professor Anna Scaife: https://twitter.com/radastrat

Cathy O'Neil - https://twitter.com/mathbabedotorg

Safiya Noble - https://twitter.com/safiyanoble

Tom MacWright - https://macwright.org/

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