French Mobile Network Datasets

This article explores France's public data platform containing 74K datasets, focusing on the 'My Mobile Network' group with six datasets about mobile network structure and performance. The author details converting these datasets into Parquet format using GDAL 3.9.3, Python 3.12.3, DuckDB with extensions (H3, JSON, Spatial), and QGIS for mapping. The post includes a detailed workstation specification (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5 RAM, NVMe SSD) and step-by-step setup instructions for prerequisites, virtual environments, and DuckDB configuration. It is a technical tutorial relevant to IT professionals working with geospatial data, databases, and data engineering.