Where are IITs located?

With new Indian Institues of Technology (IITs) set up; I was keen to know their locations. 

Here is plot that shows their locations. 

I created the dataset. Using pandas and geopands I plotted this figure. 

It was good learning. I could set their colors differently as I wanted. 

This was intended but the map shows an interesting pattern. Most of the IITs are in Northern India. 

plot showing population of Rajasthan India districtwise using geopandas

A geopandas chart showing population of Rajasthan India district wise

I had the shape file of state of Rajasthan in India. The next step was to create a  virtual environment for geo Pandas on my Anaconda distribution on windows laptop. 

I did that. 

Once I had the set up and data, I plotted the population of the state. Geo Pandas made it really easy to plot the geo data and associated properties. 

I am looking forward to working on more geo Pandas plots. 

World population map with GeoPandas

Today I had decided to plot my first plot using GeoPandas; and I am glad I could do it today.

Below is the plot of world-population. But the plot is not that important.

What is important is how I got to this point. After attaining some momentum with pandas almost six months ago; I could not do much with GeoPandas. The reason was when I downloaded GeoPandas; it also loaded it dependencies and disturbed by existing packages in Anaconda distribution on my Windows laptop. So I had to remove GeoPandas.

The solution, I understood, needed multiple separate environments. That is done by installing virtual environments. Here was where I lost the momentum.

The options to install virtual environments are many; and that needed me to understood what was relevant for me. Finally I figured that out today.

I opted to install the needed virtual environment using Anaconda GUI. I loaded the necessary packages. I was not clear what happens to the IDE. It also installed on its own.

I now hope to build on what I have learned today!

World population map with GeoPandas