This course teaches students how to collect, store, wrangle and display cartographic data in a cloud-based setting. Students will learn a reproducible approach for pulling spatial data from APIs with emphasis on PostGIS, Socrata and BigQuery; to wrangle these data in python; and visualize in various platforms including Seaborn and Carto. Students will build their own APIs and eventually develop their own introductory custom web applications. This course is the first in a progression and leads to the Spring course on Javascript Programming for Planning (a class on building comprehensive mapping applications.)
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