Last updated: 2026-08-27
Planetary Prediction Engine — Tutorial
A plain-language tutorial on turning a location-aware question into a candidate prediction map, and then using that map without confusing it for a command.
| Page | Title | Idea |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | The weeks before the map | Why geospatial questions take more than an algorithm. |
| 02 | Ask a question the map can answer | Geography, time, target, and task. |
| 03 | Find the signals | Data Commons, Earth Engine, proxies, and provenance. |
| 04 | What an embedding adds | Learned spatial representations from complex data. |
| 05 | Keep tomorrow out of today | Target leakage and honest evaluation. |
| 06 | Fast does not mean right | Benchmarks, overfitting, and distribution shift. |
| 07 | From map to field team | Prediction as a way to allocate attention. |
| 08 | Invent the local handoff | Build an open, pilot-honest workflow. |
The tutor teaches one idea at a time, then offers the matching page. The final page is a reminder; the learner invents in chat.