How I Created Animated Choropleth Map and Running Bar Plot using Python
We will use animated Python visualizations to observe trends of state-wise forest cover over the years in India Introduction India is famous for its natural diversity and one of the most contributing factor to this diversity is, its forests. From the very childhood, however, I have been reading about deforestation and how it is affecting the environment. This made me curious on delving deeper into how forest cover has evolved over the years across the Indian states. For this purpose we are utilising publicly available data [1]. As the data available here is spread into different links, we are cleaning the data and combining these. This will be followed by creating visualisation using this data. Visualisations explored in this article are (a) Choropleth map animation (b) Bar chart race. Let’s start by exploring the dataset and cleaning it. Dataset After a bit of browsing, I found this website [1] which had time-series data on state-wise forest coverage. As expected it was n...
