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How to open up Geographic Dataset for Beginners. [message #29230]

Mon, 13 May 2024 13:04

ev231
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Hi! I am working on a computer vision project training on households with electricity. I have inquiries on how to read the GPS Data. When we only select "Geographic Data" in the "File Data Type" section, we receive a few files of types we have never seen before (.DAT, .STX, etc). How can we read in the GPS data?
When we select both "Geographic Data" and "DHS" in the "File Data Type" section, the files mentioned above are not found. When we only download DHS data and select "Stata" type to download, we can open the .DTA file using Pandas and Python. However, if we download them with "Flat" type, we don't know how to read in the .DAT file.

Basically our end goal is to have a dataset that has a few indicators (specifically electricity) and the geographic coordinates as features (columns) and have each row a datapoint.

Would greatly appreciate guidance on how to open up these datasets!

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		How to open up Geographic Dataset for Beginners. By: ev231 on Mon, 13 May 2024 13:04
		Re: How to open up Geographic Dataset for Beginners. By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 13 May 2024 15:35
		Re: How to open up Geographic Dataset for Beginners. By: marcmarcos on Thu, 18 July 2024 02:12

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