A bit about Viz Engines
Maps, maps and more maps
We will start thinking about maps & map projection, both in bqplot and matplotlib and with geopandas+contextily. We’ll continue this week with building dashboards of mappable data.
Optional reading list
- VAD Ch. 8.1-8.3: Arrange Spatial Data
- FDV, Ch. 15: Visualizing geospatial data
- VAD, Ch. 13.4.2: Reduce Items and Attributes
- Cartopy docs; ipyleaflet docs; Geopandas Docs
Lectures
More about maps and their projections
Examples
In class notebook - (download)
Placeholder for in class coding
Prep Notebook, Week 8 - (download)
Prep notebook for this week
Past Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook_week07_part1.ipynb - (download)
Past Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook_week07_part2.ipynb - (download)
Past Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook_week07_part3.ipynb - (download)
Data
Various GIS datasets provided by Champaign
GIS data provided by the US Census