Script a Python data science model to map food insecurity

Course Objective

Due to proliferating digital data, one of the fastest growing industries is data science. In this class you will create a Python data science model within the sphere of COVID-19 impacts. The products will be data science correlation tables, graphic plots, QGIS maps, and a published dashboard. You’ll be equipped with skills that are marketable with almost any agency trying to turn data into knowledge.
568 students enrolled

Hirable skills you’ll learn

  • Use Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and QGIS
  • Harvest data and assess schema problems
  • Write Python scripts to run models
  • Build a random forest model
  • Interpret model coefficients and correlations
  • Join attribute tables to spatial files
  • Create a dashboard and graphic plots
  • Re-evaluate variables and stacked models to improve predictions

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About your instructor

Melissa Anthony has 16 years of experience in the GIS/Data Science industry with a strong background in anthropology. She has worked as an archaeologist for several companies throughout Colorado, Wyoming, and Belize. She was a GIS Supervisor for an electric company covering 5,000 square miles of territory, 11 counties, and 160,000 customers. She’s a graduate of a Data Science Fellowship from General Assembly where she collaborated with veteran Data Scientists on the latest data science methods. She currently works as a Data Scientist for Xcel Energy.

Pricing

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$697

Individual Course


  • Professional network access
  • Development sandbox
  • GeoExpert webinars
  • Video coursework

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$6,750

6 Course Certificate


  • 6 project-based courses
  • Video workflows
  • Development sandbox
  • Geoexpert webinars
  • 4 career support meetings

Plus these exclusive features:

  • Enterprise GIS certificate
  • Professional network access
  • 1:1 instructor web-meetings
  • Multimedia portfolio creation
  • Connections to our partners
  • Career coaching
  • Career services dashboard
  • 6 months support

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  • 6 project-based courses
  • Video workflows
  • Development sandbox
  • Geoexpert webinars
  • 4 career support meetings

Plus these exclusive features:

  • Enterprise GIS certificate
  • Professional network access
  • 1:1 instructor web-meetings
  • Multimedia portfolio creation
  • Connections to our partners
  • Career coaching
  • Career services dashboard
  • 6 months support

Plus extended support:

  • 3 additional project-based courses
  • 6 additional months support
  • 6 additional months of career services
  • On demand interview practice

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    I like the real-world scenarios. My professors used to do GIS before Web GIS was in existence so our curriculum is out of date. The courses I’ve taken on the Bootcamp GIS platform are so much more useful than my school’s lab exercises which only taught me to digitize a line, generate a buffer, and make a map layout.
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