censusviz 0.1.6

A Python package to make it easier to visualize Census data.

censusviz

This package helps users more easily visualize maps using Census Population Estimate API and the Census Cartographic GeoJSON boundary files. It transforms GeoJSON files into easy to work with GeoPandas.GeoDataFrame and plot choropleth maps.

Installation

pip install censusviz

Dependencies

• python = "^3.6"
• pandas
• pyproj
• requests
• numpy
• shapely
• gdal = Wheels for Windows User
• fiona = Wheels for Windows User
• geopandas
• matplotlib
• descartes
• lxml

Usage

from censusviz import censusviz

# example functions

geocenpy.list_geoparams()

geocenpy.get_geocen_df(quality = "20m", year = "2010", area_type= "county")

geocenpy.get_geocen_plot(quality ="20m", year="2010", area_type="county", boundaries=False)

geocenpy.get_pop(api_key = my_api_key, year="2019", map = True)

geocenpy.get_house_est(api_key = my_api_key, year="2019", map = True)

geocenpy.get_region_pop(api_key = my_api_key, year="2019", map = True)

geocenpy.get_state_pop(api_key = my_api_key, year="2019", state_fip = "29", map = True)

Documentation

The official documentation is hosted on Read the Docs: https://censusviz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Contributors

We welcome and recognize all contributions. You can see a list of current contributors in the contributors tab.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the UBC-MDS/cookiecutter-ubc-mds project template, modified from the pyOpenSci/cookiecutter-pyopensci project template and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.