Map Making 101

process outline

• Find the data

• Prepare the data

  • Clean

  • Enrich

• Upload the data to mapbox

• Style the layers

  • Color

  • Transparency

• Add interactivity

find the data

• Sources:

  • Excel

  • Database

  • Web (scraping)

• Tools

  • Python

  • Nightmare.js

prepare the data

• Tools

  • Excel

  • Spyder

  • Python

    • Pandas

    • Geo Pandas

    • numpy

  • Colaboratory

Upload + style data

• Mapbox Studio

add interactivity

• Codepen