Install guide

The materials for the workshop and all software packages have been tested on Python 2 and 3 on the following three platforms:

• Linux (Ubuntu-Mate x64)
• Windows 10 (x64)
• Mac OS X (10.15.7 x64).

The workshop depends on the following libraries/versions:

• numpy>=1.19.5
• pandas>=1.1.5
• matplotlib>=3.3.4
• jupyter>=1.0
• seaborn>=0.11.1
• pip>=21.0.1
• geopandas>=0.8.2
• pysal>=2.4.0
• libpysal>=4.4.0
• cartopy>=0.18.0
• pyproj>=2.6.1
• shapely>=1.7.1
• geopy>=2.1.0
• scikit-learn>=0.17.1
• bokeh>2.3.0
• mplleaflet>=0.0.5
• datashader>=0.12.0
• geojson>=2.5.0
• folium>=0.12.1
• statsmodels>=0.12.2
• xlrd>=2.0.1
• xlsxwriter>=1.3.7

Linux/Mac OS X

1. Install Anaconda
2. Get the most up to date version:

> conda update conda

3. Add the conda-forge channel:

> conda config --add channels conda-forge

4. Create an environment named gds:

> conda create --name gds python=3 pandas numpy matplotlib bokeh seaborn scikit-learn jupyter statsmodels xlrd xlsxwriter

5. Install additional dependencies:

> conda install --name gds geojson geopandas mplleaflet datashader cartopy folium

6. To activate and launch the notebook:

> source activate gds

> jupyter notebook

Windows

1. Install Anaconda3-4.0.0-Windows-x86-64
2. open a cmd window
3. Get the most up to date version:

> conda update conda

4. Add the conda-forge channel:

> conda config --add channels conda-forge

5. Create an environment named gds:

> conda create --name gds pandas numpy matplotlib bokeh seaborn statsmodels scikit-learn jupyter xlrd xlsxwriter geopandas mplleaflet datashader geojson cartopy folium

6. To activate and launch the notebook:

> activate gds

> jupyter notebook

Testing

Once installed, you can run the notebook test.ipynb placed under content/infrastructure/test.ipynb to make sure everything is correctly installed. Follow the instructions in the notebook and, if you do not get any error, you are good to go.