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Ashish Kumar
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Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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GeoPandas

GeoPandas is a Python package written on top of pandas that's used to work with geospatial data. It is designed to work with existing tools, such as desktop GIS, geospatial databases, web maps, and Python data tools.

GeoPandas allows you to easily perform operations in Python that would otherwise require a spatial database such as PostGIS.

What is geospatial data?

Spatial data, geospatial data, GIS data, and geodata are the names for numeric data that identifies the geographical location of a physical object such as a building, street, town, city, country, and so on according to a geographic coordinate system. Apart from the geographical location, geospatial data often also stores socioeconomic data, transaction...

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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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