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title: "Introducing GeoJupyter"
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date: "2025-01-08"
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We believe that geospatial data analysis and exploration should be free, open source,
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and accessible for everyone!
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author:
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- name: "Matt Fisher"
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orcid: "0000-0003-3260-5445"
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categories:
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## Need
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## :puzzle_piece: Need
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**We believe that geospatial data analysis and exploration should be free, open source,
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and accessible for everyone!**
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## Vision
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## :telescope: Vision
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![An animation of a little girl in a white dress speaking with the caption "¿Por que no los dos?", meaning "Why not both?"](https://media1.tenor.com/m/cFkttZU0au8AAAAd/porque-no-los-dos-gif.gif)
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![An animation from the 1990s childrens' TV program "Captain Planet" depicting the planeteers combining their powers to summon... Captain Planet!](https://media1.tenor.com/m/hWtovfyLjNAAAAAd/captain-planet-let-our-powers-combine.gif)
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We intend to create a new generation of reproducible and scriptable tools for exploring
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data about our planet that may include tasks traditionally done with desktop GIS
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applications, but also as part of analysis pipelines that go beyond typical GIS uses;
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not just mapping, but working with any dataset about our planet that has spatio-temporal
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structure, for example climate models or subsurface data acquired with remote sensing
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instruments.
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{{< include /elevator-pitch.md >}}
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GeoJupyter will comprise a new generation of tools and enhancements to existing tools
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supporting exploring data about our planet. This includes tasks traditionally done
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with desktop GIS applications, but also analysis pipelines that go beyond typical GIS
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uses; supporting any dataset about our planet that has spatio-temporal structure, for
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example climate models or subsurface data acquired with remote sensing instruments.
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## Process
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Standing on the shoulders of the geosciences and open source communities, we aim to
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**build new tooling for exploring, manipulating, and analyzing geospatial data on top of
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the foundation laid by Jupyter and JupyterLab.**
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## :memo: Process
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To achieve this, we will:
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To achieve our goals, we will:
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* Gather information about user experiences and points of pain or joy.
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* Gather information about geospatial data practitioners' workflows and points of pain
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or joy.
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* Establish new GeoJupyter community spaces and build new partnerships with Earth
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science and open source communities.
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* Develop sacrificial concepts to find a good fit for community needs.
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* Develop sacrificial concepts and prototypes to fit our work to community needs.
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* Deliver high-quality software solutions, educational materials, and training sessions.
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## How you :index_pointing_at_the_viewer: can get involved
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## :watch: Where is GeoJupyter now?
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:speech_balloon: [Chat with us on Zulip](https://jupyter.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/471314-geojupyter)!
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We have established a
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[community chat space on Zulip](https://jupyter.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/471314-geojupyter/topic/Welcome)
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and a [community calendar](/calendar.md).
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We are currently scheduling our first series of community meetings, with many more to come.
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:hammer_and_wrench: [Contribute to JupyterGIS](https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/)
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Sponsored by the European Space Agency,
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[QuantStack is leading development of JupyterGIS](https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-d63b7adf9d0c)
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([GitHub](https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis)),
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a real-time collaborative GIS environment for JupyterLab. We're
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[imagining new workflows](https://jupyter.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/471314-geojupyter/topic/.22Bouncing.22.20between.20JupyterGIS.20and.20a.20Jupyter.20Notebook), and we need your creativity, knowledge, and skills!
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We have completed over a dozen interviews targeting geospatial data practitioners from
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diverse backgrounds, including education, data user support, Earth science, remote
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sensing, software engineering, and product development.
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Some themes we've preliminarily identified:
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> :star_struck: It feels _amazing_ to explore data, see a completed visualization, and
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> use creativity to answer questions with geospatial data!
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> :grimace: It can be time-consuming, finnicky, and frustrating to create visualizations
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> and debug geospatial data, which is notoriously "quirky".
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> :person_climbing: Learning geospatial concepts and programming is hard.
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> Many learners struggle without ready visual feedback.
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We will follow up soon with a more comprehensive blog post about our interviews.
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For early development, we have narrowed our focus on the educational user: teachers and
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students. We will build partnerships with research education communities and university
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classrooms as early users who will shape GeoJupyter.
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## :index_pointing_at_the_viewer: How you can get involved
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:wave: [Say "hello" on Zulip](https://jupyter.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/471314-geojupyter/topic/Welcome)!
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:hammer_and_wrench: [Contribute to JupyterGIS](https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/)!
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:calendar: [Attend community events on our calendar](/calendar.md)!

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