Activity: Plot Spatial Raster Data in Python
Practice your skills creating maps of raster and vector data using open source Python.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
Practice your skills creating maps of raster and vector data using open source Python.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
Practice your skills plotting time series data stored in Pandas Data Frames in Python.
last updated: 15 Sep 2020
Practice your skills plotting time series data stored in Pandas Data Frames in Python.
last updated: 15 Sep 2020
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last updated: 11 Sep 2020
When you plot time series data using the matplotlib package in Python, you often want to customize the date format that is presented on the plot. Learn how to customize the date format on time series plots created using matplotlib.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Sometimes you need to take time series data collected at a higher resolution (for instance many times a day) and summarize it to a daily, weekly or even monthly value. This process is called resampling in Python and can be done using pandas dataframes. Learn how to resample time series data in Python with Pandas.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Sometimes you have data over a longer time span than you need for your analysis or plot. Learn how to subset your data using a begin and end date in Python.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Python provides a datetime object for storing and working with dates. Learn how you can convert columns in a pandas dataframe containing dates and times as strings into datetime objects for more efficient analysis and plotting.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Python provides a datetime object for storing and working with dates. Learn how you can convert columns in a pandas dataframe containing dates and times as strings into datetime objects for more efficient analysis and plotting.
last updated: 19 Jan 2022
Learn how to create a cumulative sum plot in Pandas to better understand stream discharge in a watershed
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
Learn how to calculate exceedance probability and return periods associated with a flood in Python.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
When you plot time series data in matplotlib, you often want to customize the date format that is presented on the plot. Learn how to customize the date format in a Python matplotlib plot.
last updated: 24 Sep 2020
Matplotlib is the most commonly used plotting library in Python. Learn how to customize the colors, symbols, and labels on your plots using matplotlib.
last updated: 16 Sep 2020
Matplotlib is the most commonly used plotting library in Python. Learn how to create plots using the matplotlib object oriented approach.
last updated: 02 Sep 2020
When making maps, you often want to create legends, customize colors, adjust zoom levels, or even make interactive maps. Learn how to customize maps created using vector data in Python with matplotlib, geopandas, and folium.
last updated: 21 Jul 2020
Interactive maps allow you to easily explore data. Learn how to create interative leaflet maps embedded in a Jupyter Notebook using Python and folium.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
When making maps, sometimes you want to zoom in to a specific area in your map. Learn how to adjust the x and y limits of your matplotlib and geopandas map to change the spatial extent that is displayed.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
When making maps, you often want to add legends and customize the map colors. Learn how to customize legends and colors in matplotlib maps created using vector data in Python.
last updated: 21 Jul 2020
When plotting raster and vector data together, the extent of the plot needs to be defined for the data to overlay with each other correctly. Learn how to define plotting extents for Python Matplotlib Plots.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
Sometimes you want to customize the colorbar and range of values plotted in a raster map. Learn how to create breaks to plot rasters in Python.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
Folium is a Python package that can be used to create interactive maps in Jupyter Notebook. Learn how to create interactive maps with raster overlays in Python using Folium.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
A hillshade is a representation of the earth's surface as it would look with shade and shadows from the sun. Learn how to overlay raster data on top of a hillshade in Python.
last updated: 21 Jan 2022
When plotting rasters, you often want to overlay two rasters, add a legend, or make the raster interactive. Learn how to make a map of raster data that has these attributes using Python.
last updated: 21 Jul 2020
You can access twitter social media data using the twitter API automatically in Python. Learn about the basics of downloading twitter data using open source Python.
last updated: 11 Sep 2020
This lesson will discuss some of the challenges associated with working with social media data in science. These challenges include working with non standard text, large volumes of data, API limitations, and geolocation issues.
last updated: 30 Mar 2020
In this lesson you will review how to adjust the extent of a spatial plot in R using the ext() or extent argument and the extent of another layer.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
In this lesson you learn to use the par() or parameter settings in R to plot several raster RGB plots in R in a grid.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
In this lesson you review how to remove those pesky borders from a raster plot using base plot in R. We also cover adding legends to your plot outside of the plot extent.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
This lesson covers how to overlay raster data on a hillshade in R using baseplot and layer opacity arguments.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
This lesson covers creating a basemap with the ggmap package in R. Given some ongoing bugs with ggmap it also covers the map package as a backup!
last updated: 30 Mar 2020
This lesson introduces the mutate() and group_by() dplyr functions - which allow you to aggregate or summarize time series data by a particular field - in this case you will aggregate data by day to get daily precipitation totals for Boulder during the 2013 floods.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
This lesson illustrated what your final stream discharge homework plots should look like for the week. Use all of the skills that you've learned in the previous lessons to complete it.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
Learn how to summarize time series data by day, month or year with Tidyverse pipes in R.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
Learn how to extract and plot data by a range of dates using pipes in R.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019
Times series data can be manipulated efficiently in R. Learn how to work with, plot and subset data with dates in R.
last updated: 30 Mar 2020
Learn how to plot data and customize your plots using ggplot in R.
last updated: 03 Sep 2019