July 6, 2022, 1:37 p.m. | Leonie Monigatti

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How to Get the Area and Other Features From a WKT String with Shapely

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Polygon data can be useful in various applications of data science. For example, in the 2022 Women in Data Science Datathon Phase II challenge one of the datasets contained polygon data of buildings’ floor plans to determine their energy usage.

These polygons can be represented in well-known text (WKT) format. The WKT format is a markup language to represent geometric 2D and …

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