Tag: geopandas

  • Data science for good – Kaggle challenge

    This was the first big data project I tackled on my own. I picked Center for Policing Equity challenge on Kaggle for three reasons: I love maps and I love the idea that data scientists can significantly improve our world, in addition to improving the bottom lines of big corporates. And this is exactly the…

  • Adding labels to districts in GeoPandas

    Once you have your districts drawn up nicely, using the polygons from your shapefile, it would be useful to be able to label them – but of course you need to be able to tell GeoPandas where to place these labels via co-ordinates or points – and in your shapefile you only have polygons which…

  • GeoPandas – a detailed example

    Dear World, Please send me more geographical data to plot so I can keep on using GeoPandas… Love from Sho’t Left I can’t believe how much fun this library is! So my goal was to find a way to map assessment ratings by region, showing the overall result for the region, as well as the…

  • Which districts are my cities located in?

    GeoPandas gets more and more exciting as the day wears on :). I’ve just discovered how ridiculously easy it is to take a set of cities and relate them to their corresponding districts, states or provinces and then plot the outcomes. Fanfare for… the marvellous GeoPandas spatial join! Here’s a quick how-to guide to setting…