Repository for Data Science Africa Workshop 2019
# gridfinder-workshop
Repository for Facebook/World Bank session at Data Science Africa Workshop 2019.
The workshop content is in `gridfinder-workshop.ipynb`.
This workshop is based on gridfinder, an algorthim for predicting the location of medium-voltage grid lines, based on work by Facebook Data for Good, the World Bank Group, and others.
## Installation
Clone/download this repo:
git clone --recursive
github.com
cd gridfinder-workshop
Then run the following (unless you're on a Linux/macOS machine and prefer to use pip):
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate gf_env
Copy provided input data files into the `data/` directory and then run the Jupyter Notebook:
jupyter notebook
If all goes well it should open in your browser showing the `gridfinder-workshop` directory contents. If it doesn't, you might need to copy paste the URL (something like `
localhost`). Open `gridfinder-workshop.ipynb` and you're ready!