From christianzlong at gmail.com Mon Sep 12 15:02:42 2016 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:02:42 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] September meeting Message-ID: Hi, Our September meeting is tonight, at 7pm. We'll be discussing the Pandas data processing library. Bring any ideas you have for topics, we'll talk about them too. See you there, Christian From christianzlong at gmail.com Mon Sep 12 22:23:57 2016 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:23:57 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] September meeting notes Message-ID: Hi All, Good meeting tonight, and the start of an exciting new project for the FoxPUG group. Mamadou talked about his idea for an app or website that can provide information about urban flooding to city dwellers around the world. In many fast-growing cities in the developing world, people are living and building in flood-prone areas. Mamadou has developed a GIS model that can predict the places in a city that will flood. This kind of urban flash flooding is destructive and deadly, and can occur in areas that don't look risky to the eye. The vision is for a smartphone app or site that anyone in the world can use to assess their area's risk for urban flooding. This could save lives! Our initial plan is to host Mamadou's urban flood model on the [Google Earth Engine](https://earthengine.google.com/) platform. Google Earth Engine is a cloud platform that combines computing power with many high-quality geography data sets. There is more information about Mamadou's urban flooding project in our [May meeting notes](http://foxpython.tumblr.com/post/143768598127/may-meeting-notes). Next, I gave a small demo of Pandas, a data processing library for use in Python. The Pandas DataFrame has become a standard way of manipulating and transferring data, used by analytic, statistical and visualization packages. We downloaded a [dataset of Baltimore City employee salaries](https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/baltimore-city-employee-salaries-fy2016), from and the [Data.gov](https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?res_format=CSV) repository. I showed some very basic features of Pandas - loading a csv file in to a DataFrame, exploring the data. We converted a dollar amount that was stored as a string with a leading dollar sign in to a float. Here's an example: df[['AnnualSalary', 'GrossPay']].replace('\$','',regex=True).astype('float') Watch for more news about the urban flood watch project here on the mailing list, and please get in touch if you want to help. We will need people with many different skills to turn this vision in to a reality. We welcome your involvement in creating a tool that will help people around the world understand the areas that are at risk of flood in their cities and neighborhoods. See you next month! http://foxpython.tumblr.com/post/150337285747/october-meeting Christian From christianzlong at gmail.com Mon Sep 26 14:42:29 2016 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:42:29 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] Google Earth Engine Message-ID: Hi all, I requested an account on Google Earth Engine, and I just got approved. The developer API documentation is here. https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/ Mamadou, let's plan on working on this at the October meeting. There is a web-based code editor where we can start to develop the flood mapping project. Christian From fromiester_69 at yahoo.com Mon Sep 26 20:12:15 2016 From: fromiester_69 at yahoo.com (Nick) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:12:15 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] Google Earth Engine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is exciting! For more inspiration on how to use it and its power, I came across this example: https://www.revealnews.org/blog/now-this-is-a-story-all-about-how-we-found-the-wet-princes-of-bel-air/ I'm not sure if I'll make the next meeting or not, but wanted to share. -Nick > On Sep 26, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Christian Long wrote: > > Hi all, > > I requested an account on Google Earth Engine, and I just got approved. > > The developer API documentation is here. > https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/ > > Mamadou, let's plan on working on this at the October meeting. There > is a web-based code editor where we can start to develop the flood > mapping project. > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > FoxPUG mailing list > FoxPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From coulibalym at uwosh.edu Tue Sep 27 11:16:35 2016 From: coulibalym at uwosh.edu (Mamadou Coulibaly) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:16:35 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] Google Earth Engine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great! Thank you Christian Mamadou Mamadou Y. S. Coulibaly, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Geography and Urban Planning University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 800 Algoma BLVD Oshkosh, WI 54901 Phone: 920 424 3123 Fax: 920 424 0292 *Life's most persistent and urgent question is "What are you doing for others?"* * MLK* On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Christian Long wrote: > Hi all, > > I requested an account on Google Earth Engine, and I just got approved. > > The developer API documentation is here. > https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/ > > Mamadou, let's plan on working on this at the October meeting. There > is a web-based code editor where we can start to develop the flood > mapping project. > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > FoxPUG mailing list > FoxPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christianzlong at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 14:28:18 2016 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:28:18 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] Google Earth Engine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Nick, I'll check it out. On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Nick wrote: > This is exciting! > > For more inspiration on how to use it and its power, I came across this > example: > > https://www.revealnews.org/blog/now-this-is-a-story-all-about-how-we-found-the-wet-princes-of-bel-air/ > > I'm not sure if I'll make the next meeting or not, but wanted to share. > > -Nick > > On Sep 26, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Christian Long > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I requested an account on Google Earth Engine, and I just got approved. > > The developer API documentation is here. > https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/ > > Mamadou, let's plan on working on this at the October meeting. There > is a web-based code editor where we can start to develop the flood > mapping project. > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > FoxPUG mailing list > FoxPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug From christianzlong at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 14:29:29 2016 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:29:29 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] Google Earth Engine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Next step is to do a very simple GIS calculation using their Earth Engine code editor. Good plan for the next meeting! We'll put the code on Github so it's accessible. On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Mamadou Coulibaly wrote: > Great! Thank you Christian > > Mamadou > > Mamadou Y. S. Coulibaly, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Geography and Urban Planning > University of Wisconsin Oshkosh > 800 Algoma BLVD > Oshkosh, WI 54901 > Phone: 920 424 3123 > Fax: 920 424 0292 > > Life's most persistent and urgent question is "What are you doing for > others?" > > MLK > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Christian Long > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I requested an account on Google Earth Engine, and I just got approved. >> >> The developer API documentation is here. >> https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/ >> >> Mamadou, let's plan on working on this at the October meeting. There >> is a web-based code editor where we can start to develop the flood >> mapping project. >> >> Christian >> _______________________________________________ >> FoxPUG mailing list >> FoxPUG at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug > >