Walkthrough: Mapping Basics with bokeh and GeoPandas in Python

From data and files to a static map to an interactive map

Rebecca Weng
Towards Data Science
10 min readNov 13, 2019

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Final static plot. Keep reading for the interactivity!

My goal this week was to learn how to make an interactive map and then to create a tutorial on how to make that map. Maps can be really useful in visualizing geographical data and change over time. They can provide a nice way to literally zoom out and see…

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