Information Visualization

80 - Locations on Geomap

Plotting geocoded Named Entities on a map.

Geocoded Named Entities can easily be mapped on a geographical map. There are several services and libraries to do the job:

  • With a Mapbox account (50k web map loads/month free tier) you can plot your coordinates from a Pandas dataframe to a Plotly scatter-mapbox.
  • GeoPandas makes working with geospatial data in python easier. It extends the datatypes used by Pandas to allow spatial operations on geometric types.
  • Folium creates beautiful and interactive maps by using Python and Leaflet, a JavaScript library for interactive maps. Folium has a lot of Jupyter demo notebooks.

Folium chart with Python and Leaflet (source)



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