Example Project: Milton, MA Community Maps
I recently did an exploratory analysis combining several publicly available geospatial datasets about the town of Milton, MA (where I live!) and surrounding communities. I had a few goals in putting this together:
- Provide an example of a Python project structure that is portable, transparent and reproducibile using modern tools for data versioning, document generation, and python environment management. Namely, dvc for data version control and DAGs, sphinx for document generation, and conda for environment management.
- Build awareness in the community of Milton civic organizations of available sources of map data and how they might be used to answer questions of local interest. Provide a starting foundation for anyone in town who may want to work with this data in Python.
- Learn more about geospatial analytics tools in Python!
Checkout the project here!