Crime Zone Heatmaps with Python and Folium

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In this Guided Project, you will:

Generate interactive maps using Folium

Access and manipulate values in a dataset using pandas

Create animated heatmaps overlaid on top of a city map

1 hour
Beginner
No download needed
Split-screen video
English
Desktop only

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.

Skills you will develop

  • Data Science

  • Python Programming

  • Pandas

  • Data Visualization (DataViz)

  • folium

Learn step-by-step

In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Create an interactive map with Folium

  2. Read a dataset from file

  3. Process and extract useful data

  4. Create heatmap

  5. Improve heatmaps with spatial clustering

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In a split-screen video, your instructor guides you step-by-step

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