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https://github.com/eolesinski/geostates
Python package for creating choropleth maps of the United States
https://github.com/eolesinski/geostates
geospatial-visualization python python3
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Python package for creating choropleth maps of the United States
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/eolesinski/geostates
- Owner: eolesinski
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-10-17T22:47:24.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-09-08T21:23:09.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-18T13:16:28.033Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: geospatial-visualization, python, python3
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://eolesinski.github.io/geostates/
- Size: 13.9 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
geostates
=========[](https://pypi.org/project/geostates)
[](https://pepy.tech/project/geostates)
[](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6812430)Geostates is a Python package for quickly plotting choropleth maps of the United States.
Installation
------------**PyPI**
To install geostates run: ``pip install geostates``.
Dev roadmap
-----------The current version of geostates only allows for plotting choropleth maps of the United States using a very specific
set of shapefiles. In the future, the goal is to add:- Ability to plot United States maps with county-level data.
- Add support for Congressional Districts, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Zip Code Areas to individual state
plots.
- Add support for plotting categorical data for United States maps.
- Add features for plotting political science maps (ie. Electoral College maps, etc.).How to contribute
-----------------You can contribute to the geostates package by installing it and giving it a try. You can also file issues on the
issue tracker or submit a pull request if you would like to make any improvements.Acknowledgements
----------------- This package's core functionality relies substantially on the [geopandas](https://geopandas.org/en/stable/) package.
- The idea to use inset axes for this package came from Cimbali. A helpful explanation on utilizing segmented
colormaps came from JohanC. As mentioned in the comments, the function for discretizing matplotlib colormaps was
inspired by an example provided in Jake VanderPlas' [Python Data Science Handbook](https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/).