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Mario Döbler
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Mario Döbler

Mario Döbler is a Ph.D. student with a focus on deep learning at the University of Stuttgart. He previously interned at the Bosch Center for artificial intelligence in the Silicon Valley in the field of deep learning. He used state-of-the-art algorithms to develop cutting-edge products. In his master thesis, he dedicated himself to applying deep learning to medical data to drive medical applications.
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Tim Großmann
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Tim Großmann is a computer scientist with interest in diverse topics, ranging from AI and IoT to Security. He previously worked in the field of big data engineering at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in Silicon Valley. In addition to that, he worked on an Eclipse project for IoT device abstractions in Singapore. He's highly involved in several open-source projects and actively speaks at tech meetups and conferences about his projects and experiences.
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Introduction

geoplotlib is an open-source Python library for geospatial data visualizations. It has a wide range of geographical visualizations and supports hardware acceleration. It also provides performance rendering for large datasets with millions of data points. As discussed in earlier chapters, Matplotlib provides various ways to visualize geographical data.

However, Matplotlib is not designed for this task because its interfaces are complicated and inconvenient to use. Matplotlib also restricts how geographical data can be displayed. The Basemap and Cartopy libraries allow you to plot on a world map, but these packages do not support drawing on map tiles. Map tiles are underlying rectangular, square, or hexagonal tile slabs that are used to create a seamless map of the world, with lightweight, individually requested tiles that are currently in view.

geoplotlib, on the other hand, was designed precisely for this purpose; it not only provides map tiles but also allows for...

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Mario Döbler

Mario Döbler is a Ph.D. student with a focus on deep learning at the University of Stuttgart. He previously interned at the Bosch Center for artificial intelligence in the Silicon Valley in the field of deep learning. He used state-of-the-art algorithms to develop cutting-edge products. In his master thesis, he dedicated himself to applying deep learning to medical data to drive medical applications.
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Tim Großmann

Tim Großmann is a computer scientist with interest in diverse topics, ranging from AI and IoT to Security. He previously worked in the field of big data engineering at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in Silicon Valley. In addition to that, he worked on an Eclipse project for IoT device abstractions in Singapore. He's highly involved in several open-source projects and actively speaks at tech meetups and conferences about his projects and experiences.
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