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You're reading from Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook Over 150 recipes to create highly detailed interactive visualizations using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789135718

Length 676 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Matplotlib

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Authors (2):

Nikhil Borkar

Srinivasa Rao Poladi

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Anatomy of Matplotlib FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Basic Plots

3. Plotting Multiple Charts, Subplots, and Figures

4. Developing Visualizations for Publishing Quality

5. Plotting with Object-Oriented API

6. Plotting with Advanced Features

7. Embedding Text and Expressions

8. Saving the Figure in Different Formats

9. Developing Interactive Plots

10. Embedding Plots in a Graphical User Interface

11. Plotting 3D Graphs Using the mplot3d Toolkit

12. Using the axisartist Toolkit

13. Using the axes_grid1 Toolkit

14. Plotting Geographical Maps Using Cartopy Toolkit

15. Exploratory Data Analysis Using the Seaborn Toolkit

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Geographical plotting using geopandas

In this recipe, we will learn how to plot geographical maps using the geopandas package that comes packaged with Matplotlib. There are thirdparty packages supported by Matplotlib for advanced geographical maps, such as Basemap (being sunset in 2020) and Cartopy (replacing Basemap). We will learn to use Cartopy in Chapter 14, Plotting Geographical Maps Using Cartopy.

Getting ready

Import the required libraries:

import geopandas as gpd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

How to do it...

The following code block highlights the locations...

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Authors (2)

Borkar

Nikhil Borkar holds a CQF designation and a post Graduate Degree in Quantitative finance. He also holds the Certified Financial Crime examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Professional qualifications. He is a registered Research Analyst with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and has a keen grasp of the Indian regulatory landscape pertaining to Securities and Investments. He is currently working as an independent FinTech and legal consultant. Prior to this, the worked with Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) as a Global RFP Project Manager.

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Poladi

Srinivasa Rao Poladi has been in the IT services industry for over two decades, providing consulting and implementation services in data warehousing, business intelligence, and machine learning areas for global customers. He has worked with Wipro Technologies for two decades and played key leadership roles in building large technology practices and growing them to multi-million $ business. He spoke at international conferences, published many blogs and white papers in the areas of big data, business intelligence, and analytics. He is a co-founder of krtrimaIQ a consulting firm that provides cognitive solutions to create tomorrow's Intelligent Enterprises powered by automation, big data, machine learning, and deep learning.

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