Generate interactive maps using Folium
Access and manipulate values in a dataset using pandas
Create animated heatmaps overlaid on top of a city map
In this one hour long project-based course, you will tackle a real-world problem in data analysis and visualization. You will process a dataset of crime incidents in the city of Boston, and use this data to create an animated heatmap displaying crime hotspots. Heatmaps use color to display a quantity that changes over two dimensions. By the end of this project, you will have created heatmaps using code you will write in Python.
Data Science
Python Programming
Pandas
Data Visualization (DataViz)
folium
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Create an interactive map with Folium
Read a dataset from file
Process and extract useful data
Create heatmap
Improve heatmaps with spatial clustering
Your workspace is a cloud desktop right in your browser, no download required
In a split-screen video, your instructor guides you step-by-step
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