Mapping Data with Python - a beginners' course

A visual first study for Python and Data Science

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Udemy
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English
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14
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1.5 hours
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Sep 2023
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$29.99
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What you will learn

How to get started with Python and Jupyter Notebooks for data science

How to plot data on to a map using Python code

How to use Python's "geopandas" package to manage map data

How to use Python's "contextily" package to manipulate basemaps

Description

Maps are a great visual tool. We all collect spatial data - holiday destinations, favourite places, areas of interest. But paper maps are limited, and the tools to plot digital maps on a computer can seem daunting.

Do you have data that you would like to show on a map but you don't know how to ?  Or would you like to try a first coding project and want something simple and very visual as a starting project? 

Maps are a great first project for coding or working with data.  You can start to produce maps with only 7 lines of code.  This beginners' course requires no previous experience and leads you line by line through the code required.  It uses the popular Python language which is the most widely used language for Data Science.

In the course lessons, you will find how to:

  • Access free mapping packages to allow you to draw great maps with almost no code

  • Load your data from a spreadsheet to a map

  • Apply map projections to shape the map to a screen

  • Add a background of streets or landscape to the region

  • Customise the map into what you want it to be, changing appearance, colouring and layout.  You can make a detailed streetmap or an impressionistic outline map as you require

Content

Introduction - maps and data visualisation

Maps as a data science visualisation
Using the power of Python packages

Writing your first code

Writing your first Python code
Loading data and running your Python code

Creating a map to visualise data

Lines and points
Visualisation at last !
Map projections and basemaps

Customising the map

Customising - the plot area
Customising - base map styles
Customising - point size and color

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