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KerryHalupka/choropleth_example2.py

Created July 27, 2020 11:08
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Load shapefile at LGA granularity.
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choropleth_example2.py
lga_gdf = gpd.read_file('./data/1270055003_lga_2020_aust_shp/LGA_2020_AUST.shp') #load the data using Geopandas
lga_gdf = lga_gdf[lga_gdf['STE_NAME16']=='Victoria'] #Select the data for the state of Victoria
lga_gdf['LGA_CODE20'] = lga_gdf['LGA_CODE20'].astype('str') # we will join on this axis, so both dataframes need this to be the same type
lga_gdf.head()
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