Learning goals
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After each week you should be able to achieve following learning goals.

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| Class                           | Learning goals                                                                      |
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| 1.                              | After lesson 1 you should be able to:                                               |
|                                 |   - search for information about the available GIS packages in Python               |
|                                 |   - understand how geometric objects are represented in Python using Shapely        |
|                                 |   - create geometric objects based on coordinate values                             |
|                                 |   - (optionally) install Python packages on your own computer using conda           |
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| 2.                              | After lesson 2 you should be able to:                                               |
|                                 |     - Read and write spatial data from/to common file formats                       |
|                                 |     - Conduct simple analysis on spatial and non-spatial data                       |
|                                 |     - Manage coordinate reference systems and re-project data                       |
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| 3.                              |  After lesson 3 you should be able to:                                              |
|                                 |    - Do geocoding, i.e. converting addresses into Points (and vice versa)           |
|                                 |    - Conduct Point in Polygon queries                                               |
|                                 |    - Read data from KML file                                                        |
|                                 |    - Make spatial and table joins between layers                                    |
|                                 |    - Find the nearest neighbour from Point -objects                                 |
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| 4.                              |  After lesson 4 you should be able to:                                              |
|                                 |    - Reclassify data based on different criteria (custom or common classifiers)     |
|                                 |    - Do overlay analysis & select data e.g. based on boundaries of another layer    |
|                                 |    - Aggregate data & merge geometric objects together, based on common id          |
|                                 |    - Simplify geometries                                                            |
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| 5.                              |  After lesson 5 you should be able to:                                              |
|                                 |    - Create a static map with background basemap using Geopandas & contextily       |
|                                 |    - Create a simple interactive map using either Bokeh or Folium (or both)         |
|                                 |    - Share your maps (static / interactive) on the internet using GitHub pages      |
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| 6.                              |  After lesson 6 you should be able to:                                              |
|                                 |    - Retrieve and save data from OpenStreetMap using Python                         |
|                                 |    - Extract simple street network properties and statistics                        |
|                                 |    - Do simple route optimization using shortest path algorithm in osmnx / networkx |
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| Optional self-study             |  After going through the optional materials you should be able to:                  |
|                                 |    - understand the basics of raster data processing using rasterio                 |
|                                 |    - be familiar with Python scripting in QGIS                                      |
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