HSMA: Geographic Modelling and Visualisation

Summary

HSMA: Geographic Modelling and Visualisation is a free eBook written to accompany the geographic module of the Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) programme. It covers key geographic concepts, making maps in the free point-and-click tool QGIS and in Python, working with travel times, solving facility location problems such as where to place services, and redrawing boundaries.

Rating: Gold

Content is based on a module written by an ex-NHS data scientist as part of an experienced team of academics with over a decade in the operational research and data science space, and has been expanded with additional chapters.

Atlas Entry authored by: | Sammi Rosser (Link) |

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HSMA: Geographic Modelling and Visualisation is a free eBook written to accompany the geographic modelling and visualisation module of the Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) programme.

It is aimed at people with some experience of Python who want to be able to work with geographic data, and particularly at people in the UK working in the NHS, policing, social care, public health or local government.

The book is split into six parts:

Geographic concepts and terms, including projections, coordinate reference systems and geographic data filetypes
Mapping in QGIS, a free and open source point-and-click tool
Mapping in Python, with geopandas, matplotlib and folium
Working with travel times, including travel time APIs and isochrones
Facility location problems - finding the best places to put your services
Working with boundaries, including redrawing boundaries and multiobjective optimisation

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To view the book, click on the image above or go to https://geographic.hsma.co.uk.

Tip

Brand new to Python? Consider starting with the HSMA book of Python first:

https://python.hsma.co.uk