Urban Analytics with Python - Udemy

Welcome to “Urban Analytics with Python: Geospatial Data Science and OpenStreetMap”! In this course, you’ll dive deep into the world of urban data analysis with a hands-on Python coding approach. This isn’t just a theoretical overview – it’s a practical course where you’ll actively write code to manipulate, analyze, and visualize geospatial data from OpenStreetMap (OSM).

The course starts with an introduction to geospatial data, including the distinctions between vector and raster data types, while offering a foundation in using OSM as a robust data source. As you move forward, we’ll guide you through setting up your Python environment and introduce essential geospatial libraries like GeoPandas and Shapely. You’ll begin coding right away, working with geometric data types and handling geospatial data structures.

Once you’re comfortable with Python and geospatial basics, we’ll focus on acquiring different urban datasets from OSM using powerful Python packages like OSMNx and OverPy. You’ll learn how to collect and work with point, polygon, and graph data, from building footprints to road networks. Every step will involve Python coding, ensuring you gain the technical skills to handle real-world geospatial data tasks.

Finally, we’ll wrap up with advanced urban analytics techniques. You’ll engage in practical projects, analyzing road networks, building profiles, and creating visualizations to explore urban areas. The course concludes with a comprehensive mini-project, where you’ll apply all the techniques you’ve learned to create a livability index for a city, combining various urban KPIs using Python.

By the end, you’ll have a solid grasp of geospatial data science and be able to use Python and OSM data to conduct advanced urban analytics projects. Let’s get coding and unlock the power of urban data together!

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