# Plotting with Viridis in PySAL's geoplot¶

This document shows how one can leverage the recent release of palettable to make choropleths using the ever famous Viridis palette.

In [1]:
%matplotlib inline

import bokeh as bk
import palettable as pltt
import geopandas as gpd
import pysal as ps
from pysal.contrib import pdio
from pysal.contrib.geotable.utils import to_df, to_gdf
from pysal.contrib.viz.mapping import geoplot

pl = pltt.matplotlib.Viridis_10

bk.plotting.output_notebook()


Let's load up the US counties, and we will use homicide rates in 1990 (HR90) as an example. As a bonus, this is also an example about how you can read data in geopandas, reproject it, and push it over to PySAL's new geotable!

In [2]:
gdf = gpd.read_file(ps.examples.get_path('NAT.shp'))
gdf.crs = {'init' :'epsg:4326'}
gdf = gdf.to_crs(epsg=3083)
gdb = to_df(gdf)


Good to go! Thanks to geoplot, this means you can plot with equal ease using both backends to matplotlib and bokeh.

• matplotlib
In [3]:
geoplot(gdb, 'HR90', palette=pl, k=10)

• bokeh
In [4]:
geoplot(gdb, 'HR90', palette=pl, k=10, backend='bk')

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