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The Data Module

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"Load ready-to-use mobility datasets with ONE line of code!"

The new version of scikit-mobility (1.3.0) includes a piece of big news! The Data Module.

The Data Module allows you to retrieve mobility datasets via an easy-to-use interface.

The data module API consists of two main functions: list_datasets and load_dataset.

  • list_datasets shows the datasets already available in the repository;
  • load_dataset retrieves the requested dataset and directly outputs it into a skmob-friendly data structure.

The scikit-mobility data types and format to describe mobility data are the following:

  • trajectory →\rightarrow TrajDataFrame
  • flow →\rightarrow FlowDataFrame
  • shape →\rightarrow GeoDataFrame
  • auxiliar →\rightarrow DataFrame
import skmob
from skmob.data.load import load_dataset, list_datasets
import pandas as pd

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
print(skmob.__version__)
1.3.0

1. list_datasets()

list_datasets shows the names and information of the datasets already available in the scikit-mobility repository;

# list all the datasets' names without details

print(list_datasets())
['flow_foursquare_nyc', 'foursquare_nyc', 'nyc_boundaries', 'parking_san_francisco', 'taxi_san_francisco']