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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Automation Cookbook Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Tasks Made Easy 3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application 4. Searching and Reading Local Files 5. Generating Fantastic Reports 6. Fun with Spreadsheets 7. Developing Stunning Graphs 8. Dealing with Communication Channels 9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign? 10. Debugging Techniques 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Visualizing maps

To show information that changes from region to region, the best way is to display a map that presents the information, while at the same time giving a regional sense of position and location for the data.

In this recipe, we'll make use of the fiona module to import GIS information, as well as matplotlib to display the information. We will display a map of Western Europe and display the population of each country with a color grade. The darker the color, the larger the population.

Getting ready

We need to install matplotlib and fiona in our virtual environment:

$ echo "matplotlib==2.2.2" >> requirements.txt
$ echo "Fiona==1.7.13" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements...
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