Week 13: In-Class Office Hours

PPOL 6805 / DSAN 6750: GIS for Spatial Data Science
Fall 2025

Author

Affiliation

Jeff Jacobs

jj1088@georgetown.edu

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Bonus Homeworks

Choose Your Own Adventure

• Bonus HW5A: Re-doing Midterm Q4-Q5 (with new dataset)
  • You’ve incurred “fixed cost” of understanding Q1-Q3…
  • \(\implies\) Build on this fixed cost and complete ~Q4 + ~Q5 without time limit!
• Bonus HW5B: Spatial Regression
  • Your final project uses areal rather than point data…
  • \(\implies\) To prepare, do HW5B to learn/practice spatial regression and earn bonus points for doing so!

Final Project Details

• Presentations: 6:30-9pm, Wed, 4 December, 2024
• Reports: Due 5:59pm, Fri, 13 December, 2024

Immediately-Relevant Tools for Final Projects!

• New Visualization Tool: Leaflet
• Remote-Sensed / Raster Data
• Data Anonymization / Synthetic Datasets

Visualizing Spatial Data

• My recommendation for final presentations: Leaflet

Remote-Sensed / Raster Data

• You’ve seen (to some extent) terra
• stars: Same group behind sf
• Google solar panel data
• .tif files: Dynamically loaded

Anonymization / Synthetic Datasets

• Differential privacy
• Used by the US Census(!) Since 2020

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