5 Ideas to Create New Features from Polygons

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

Leonie Monigatti
Towards Data Science
7 min readJul 6, 2022

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Polygons
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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.

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