Chapter 7: Exploring Map Plots and Enriching Your Dashboards with Markdown

In this chapter, we are going to explore how to handle maps, one of the most engaging types of charts. There are many ways of creating and handling maps, as well as many types of map plots. There are also many specialized geographic and scientific applications for maps. We will mainly be focusing on two of the most common types of map plots: choropleth map plots and scatter map plots. Choropleth maps are the type of maps we are most familiar with. These are the types of maps where geographical areas are colored to indicate a country, state, district, or any arbitrary polygon on a map, and express variations in quantity among them. Most of the knowledge we established in the previous chapter can easily be adapted to scatter map plots, as they are essentially the same, with a few differences. Similar to the x and y axes, we have longitude and latitude instead, and we also have different map projections. We will...