Linking data a bit about maps (if we have time)
More with dashboards & Map Viz
We will start thinking about maps & map projection, both in bqplot and matplotlib. We’ll start this week with building dashboards of mappable data.
Optional reading list
- VAD Ch. 8.1-8.3: Arrange Spatial Data
- VAD Ch. 11.1-11.5: Manipulate View
- FDV, Ch. 15: Visualizing geospatial data
Lectures
Examples
Prep Notebook, Week 6, Part 1 - (download)
Prep notebook for this week, Part 1
Prep Notebook, Week 6, Part 2 - (download)
Prep notebook for this week, Part 2
Past Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook_week06_part1.ipynb - (download)
Past Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook_week06_part2.ipynb - (download)
Past Notebook: spring2019_prep_notebook_week06_part3.ipynb - (download)
Python Libraries
State export utilities (states_utils.py)
Python library, save to notebook folder or modify your path if you know how to do that
US State abbreviations (us_state_abbrev.py)
Python library, save to notebook folder or modify your path if you know how to do that
Data
The UFO Sitings Dataset (13Mb)
Data about world wide reports of UFO sitings
Surgery Charges Dataset (37Mb)
Surgery charges in different states
Earthquake sensor data from the earthquake from the Tohoku earthquake in 2011
Earthquake locations data (12Kb)
Locations of earthquake sensors