Visualizing Geo Data with Folium & Bokeh

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This repo that demos folium and bokeh libraries to visualize geodata.

Folium

The purpose of the folium demo is to demonstrate:

• use of 3 different types of map tiles: (i) open street map, (ii) mapbox, and (iii) stamen
• how to creatie icons for a specific set of coordinates (latitude, longitude)
• how to have custom pop-up text appare when clicking the custom icon
• how to generate custom icons for a map visualization
• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: http://folium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Bokeh

The purpose of the bokeh demo is to demonstrate:

• how to use Google Maps API
• how to create filters to generate sliding bars to see how geographic data changes over time
• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/