helping people decide on location geographic information system (gisprovides means of viewing geographic information with business needs in mind for exampleyou could use gis to determine the best place to put new business or to determine the optimum routes for shipping goods howevergis is used for more than simply deciding on locations -it also provides means for communicating location information better than mapsreportsand other graphicsand method of presenting physical locations to others also interesting is the fact that many gis products use python as their language of choice in facta wealth of python-specific information related to gis is currently availablesuch as the gis and python software laboratory python and gis resources (python-and-gis-resources/gis programming and automation (edu/geog /node/ many gis-specific productssuch as arcgis (software/arcgis)rely on python to automate tasks entire communities develop around these software offeringssuch as python for arcgis (point is that you can use your new programming skills in areas other than computing to earn an income performing data mining everyone is collecting data about everyone and everything else trying to sift through the mountains of data collected is an impossible task without lot of fine-tuned automation the flexible nature of pythoncombined with its terse language that makes changes extremely fastmakes it favorite with people who perform data mining on daily basis in factyou can find an online book on the topica programmer' guide to data miningat guidetodatamining compython makes data mining tasks lot easier the purpose of data mining is to recognize trendswhich means looking for patterns of various sorts the use of artificial intelligence with python makes such pattern recognition possible paper on the topic"data miningdiscovering and visualizing patterns with python(refcardz/data-mining-discovering-and)helps you understand how such analysis is possible you can use python to create just the right tool to locate pattern that could net sales missed by your competitor