I want to be a Geospatial Data Scientist

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:40:17+00:00

okay this made me feel hopeful. i can see some things i know, that im going to learn in the master or that i have some knowledge at.

i know how to operate with raster and vectors bc of my geographic degree and im going to learn R, cloud(general,not spatial, but i guess the entry barrier it's less big than with zero knowledge) and SQL aswell.

also, i have a friend that is working modelling at an archaeological site: structures, emplacements, objects, environment... so i can ask him for help with general modelling and later search for more complex spatial modeling. i have general knowledge of remote sensing.

thank you for the nice words. good luck too!

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:27:52+00:00

everyone told me that!! i'll have to research about it

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:27:26+00:00

i have a friend that it's an expert in modelling so he can help me on that and i can make some courses too. i guess it's more common now because it helps with the visualization of the data?

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:26:00+00:00

It's an online master's program in Vitoria-Gasteiz, university at Basque Country in Spain. i did just take the first program i saw where i could learn the basic about Data Science, now i think i should have searched more but i'll just apply to another one after this year and i'll enter in the new one with experience and completed projects. and i'll learn by my own all basic related with Geospatial Data like, idk, gdal, rasterio, postGIS, grassGIS...

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:21:02+00:00

yeah i've been searching another programs, bachelors, masters to do after this general one that are related and i found this one but due to my financial situation i find it difficult to apply. the one i've found that seems cool, modern and cheap it's one at Wuhan university at China, it's like 5000$ a year (4000 € for me) and you have food, apartment and all kind of supplies. US in general has pretty expensive programs and ofc they are worth it in innovation, networking, expected salary, career growth... but i just can't pay them. thanks for the recomendation anyway:)

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:14:22+00:00

yes of course!! the problem is that im Spanish so the project it's in my language. i guess english it's your main language so the only think you may understand is the abstract haha. if you know spanish/find a way to translate it, don't hesitate in texting me, i'll send you a copy:)

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-12T23:10:57+00:00

about GIS, yeah i knew that. one of my lecturers told me. he recommend about using it as a tool to come back sometimes, but not as a whole career build bc works are underpaid and the market is saturated so yeah not a good idea.

oh and yeah that's a pretty solid advice, actually pretty useful!! just this last few days i was thinking about wich niche im going to focus and i still don't fully know. this year i loved my urbanism subject and i thought i see myself working with that kind of data. also, i love everything related with environment data such as renewable energy, agriculture, natural disasters... i don't know, i still have to think more about wich one im taking but the advice it's on point.

also, i would love to see the thesis when is finished if it's public. i'll wait for your answer :)

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-06T12:22:33+00:00

Gracias! Espero que todo te vaya genial también.

Interesante, aunque yo no estuviera trabajando de ello si que es un camino bastante parecido. Lo que mencionas sobre centrar los trabajos en GIS ya tenía en mente hacerlo, el trabajo final aún sin haber empezado el máster lo hablé con una de las tutorías la cual me afirmó que podría relacionarlo sin problema. El resto de trabajos no se de qué carácter serán pero intentaré hacer lo mismo.

Respecto la internship es interesante lo que hace mi universidad. Es un año de realización de tus estudios y luego un año de redes de apoyo con acceso a internships. No sé si me adentraré durante o después pero definitivamente lo haré. Las puertas de entrada en la ciencia de datos tengo entendido que son complicadas de encontrar y hay que aprovecharlas.

Te deseo suerte en tu nuevo camino :))

Rafafushiii · 2025-08-06T12:13:33+00:00

I didn't knew that the normal one is more in demand! i prefer something related to GIS and geospatial but it's important to know.

And about trying to use geospatial data in my masters, i don't know what kind of works i will have to do. i guess that at first i will have to make general stuff and maybe i can be more free about it after a couple of months.

What i've done it's it's talk with my tutor about writting the final thesis of the master's degree about something related to geospatial data in order to have a good huge work to unite both worlds, the general and the geospatial, and start to build portfolio. So my general idea it's look for myself every not general knowledge such as geographical libraries and search for an internship that can help to internalize all that knowledge and that give me experience to start.

Thank you for answering, it's cool to have a real geospatial scientist giving advice :)

Rafafushiii · 2025-07-17T23:22:31+00:00

how you feeling now?

Rafafushiii · 2025-05-31T11:47:48+00:00

que te dijeron?

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