Bubble Map

Geopandas and GeoPlot

Seaborn is another great alternative to build an area chart with python. The below examples show how to start basic, apply usual customization, and use the small multiple technique for when you have several groups to compare.

How to read a geoJson file with geopandas and transform it to a geodataframe.

Bubble map with Folium

Folium is a wrapper of the leaflet.js javascript library. Once you understood how to initialize an interactive map with it, you can parse a data frame of coordinates and add markers to the map with functions like Circle() and ..()

It is also possible to add any other kind of markers instead of circles. This is what you get with the default folium.Marker() function:

And this is what you can build by passing some html to the marker and popup parameters:

How to read a geoJson file with geopandas and transform it to a geodataframe.

How to read a geoJson file with geopandas and transform it to a geodataframe.

Bubble map with Basemap

Seaborn is another great alternative to build an area chart with python. The below examples show how to start basic, apply usual customization, and use the small multiple technique for when you have several groups to compare.

Bubble map with Python and the basemap library

Most simple bubble map

Bubble map with different bubble size

Bubble map with custom colors and size

Best bubble map examples

The below examples show how to create advanced bubble maps with python using real life data.

Bubble map with a scatter plot on top of it