Choropleth map


A choropleth map displays divided geographical areas or regions that are coloured in relation to a numeric variable. This section explains how to build static choropleth with geopandas and geoplot, and interactive versions with tools like folium and plotly.

Folium for google maps style choropleth maps

Folium is a wrapper of the Leaflet.js javascript library. It brings the power of javascript for data visualization, but still allows to do some data wrangling with Python. Building a choropleth with Folium is quite straightforward thanks to thechoropleth() function.

Plotly for interactive choropleth maps

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.

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