5. Plotting Geospatial Data

Activity 5.01: Plotting Geospatial Data on a Map

Solution:

Let's plot the geospatial data on a map and find the densely populated areas of cities in Europe that have population of more than 100,000:

1. Create an Activity5.01.ipynb Jupyter notebook in the Chapter05/Activity5.01 folder to implement this activity and then import the necessary dependencies:

   import numpy as np
   import pandas as pd
   import geoplotlib

2. Load the world_cities_pop.csv dataset from the Datasets folder using pandas:

   #loading the Dataset (make sure to have the dataset downloaded)
   dataset = pd.read_csv('../../Datasets/world_cities_pop.csv', \
                         dtype = {'Region': np.str})

   Note

   If we import our dataset without defining the dtype attribute of the Region column as a String type, we will get a warning telling us that...