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Web Resources and Tutorials
Max Gardner edited this page Jan 17, 2024
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- Pro Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub - Full e-book covering everything you will ever need to know about Git and then some.
- Software Carpentry Git Guide for Novices
- https://janakiev.com/blog/jupyter-virtual-envs/ - Guide to managing Python environments with an emphasis on IPython/Jupyter notebooks.
- https://github.com/wesm/pydata-book - All the notebooks associated with Wes McKinney's Python for Data Analysis book.
- Big Data for Social Science - Excellent soup-to-nuts applied data science e-book geared towards social scientists/economists. Kind of like this course except less geo and more "big data".
- http://tinlizzie.org/histograms/ - There's more to histograms than you might think, and this is a great explainer.
- https://mapschool.io/ - Short and sweet intro to some of the most important concepts in GIS, cartography, and maps.
- https://www.axismaps.com/guide - Another excellent, comprehensive, slightly more opinionated guide to the fundamentals of mapping.
- https://spatialreference.org/ - Find your projections here.
- https://gdal.org/ - Data translation library for handling spatial transformations between data types, spatial reference systems, etc.
- https://geopandas.org/en/stable/ - Work with geo-data from the comfort of the Pandas API
- http://pysal.org/pysal/index.html - Traditional spatial analysis algorithms implemented in Python
- https://geographicdata.science/book/intro.html - A whole e-book dedicated to the subject by the creators of PySAL
- https://geonetworks.github.io/ - A collection of visualization techniques for geospatial network data.
- https://mapshaper.org/ - Edit geo-data in the browser!
- http://geojson.io - Preview/edit geojson in the browser!
- https://ethics.fast.ai/ - Fantastic e-course with notes, video lectures, and reading materials on a broad range of topics related to data misuse, privacy, and ethics.
- https://afraenkel.github.io/fairness-book/ - Amazing, free e-book to accompany the UCSD Data Science course, "Fairness and Algorithmic Decision Making".
- Geoawesomeness Newsletter
- Future of Transportation Newsletter
- Spatial Awareness Newsletter -- Not sure if this is still in operation but the archive is still worth browsing through.
- Urban Mobility Weekly
- Academic Data Science Community Newsletter