Python Geospatial Data & Mapping

In this workshop we cover geospatial data and mapping in Python with various libraries including GeoPandas and Folium.

Github Page with Workshop content:

Download Anaconda:

UVA Library Workshop Calendar:

UVA StatLab:

GeoPandas documentation:

Folium documentation:

The True Size:

0:00 - Introduction & Background
8:40 - Download Data and Anaconda Setup
13:30 - Jupyter Lab/Jupyter Notebook walkthrough
14:52 - Installing Libraries
17:27 - Pandas Dataframe refresher
18:36 - GeoPandas Background
19:19 - Charlottesville Open Data Portal & Geospatial data filetypes
22:31 - Plotting with MatPlotLib
24:29 - Looking inside GeoDataframe. Geometry column
29:55 - Overlaying multiple layers in a plot
33:59 - Coordinate Reference Systems and Map Projections
43:45 - Plotting values by column
48:00 - Intersections
52:30 - Buffers
57:00 - Exporting Files
58:40 - Folium background (web mapping for Python)
59:43 - Making Folium maps
1:04:05 - Choropleth maps
1:06:47 - GeoPandas + Folium
1:12:45 - Self Help + ChatGPT