Widget for deck.gl maps
Project description
pydeck: Large-scale interactive data visualization in Python
The pydeck library is a set of Python bindings for making spatial visualizations with deck.gl, optimized for a Jupyter Notebook environment.
For interactive demos, click the binder logo below:
See further documentation here.
Installation
pip install pydeck
If you are installing this for a Jupyter notebook server, you'll have to enable the widget extension. To do this, run:
jupyter nbextension install --sys-prefix --symlink --overwrite --py pydeck
jupyter nbextension enable --sys-prefix --py pydeck
Mapbox API token
Like deck.gl, the pydeck library takes its basemap tiles from Mapbox. Register with Mapbox, and you can find your Mapbox access token here. The service is free until a certain level of traffic is exceeded.
You will need to inform pydeck about your key by setting an environment variable. In your terminal, run export MAPBOX_API_KEY=<mapbox-key-here>
, which pydeck will read to use Mapbox basemaps. You can also refer to the pydeck docs to see how to pass the key as a variable.
Getting started
The following code renders a visualization similar to the one above in a Jupyter notebook:
import pydeck as pdk
# 2014 location of car accidents in the UK
UK_ACCIDENTS_DATA = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uber-common/deck.gl-data/master/examples/3d-heatmap/heatmap-data.csv'
# Define a layer to display on a map
layer = pdk.Layer(
'HexagonLayer',
UK_ACCIDENTS_DATA,
get_position='[lng, lat]',
auto_highlight=True,
elevation_scale=50,
pickable=True,
elevation_range=[0, 3000],
extruded=True,
coverage=1)
# Set the viewport location
view_state = pdk.ViewState(
longitude=-1.415,
latitude=52.2323,
zoom=6,
min_zoom=5,
max_zoom=15,
pitch=40.5,
bearing=-27.36)
# Render
r = pdk.Deck(layers=[layer], initial_view_state=view_state)
r.to_html('demo.html')
If you're doing this outside a Jupyter environment, you can run:
r.to_html('demo.html', notebook_display=False)
For more, check out the docs and Binder examples above.
Debugging note
Currently, some errors in pydeck will only appear in your browser's developer console. If a visualization fails to render, open the developer console. Error handling will be expanded in future versions of pydeck.
Issues
If you encounter an issue, file it in the deck.gl issues page and include your console output, if any.
Installation from source
# Clone the deck.gl repo
git clone https://github.com/uber/deck.gl/
# Navigate to the pydeck module
cd deck.gl/bindings/python/pydeck
# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv env3
. env3/bin/activate
python3 setup.py install
Development
git clone https://github.com/uber/deck.gl/
cd deck.gl
# Build the entire deck.gl project
yarn bootstrap
# Optional but recommended: Run a hot reloading development server
cd modules/jupyter-widget
yarn watch
If running a non-default URL for webpack's dev server, change the URL in the PYDECK_DEV_SERVER
environment variable,
e.g., export PYDECK_DEV_SERVER=http://localhost:8081
.
Elsewhere, run:
export PYDECK_DEV_SERVER=http://localhost:8080
cd deck.gl/bindings/python/pydeck
# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv env3
. env3/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pip install -e .
Tests
Tests are handled by pytest. In the top-level pydeck directory, you can type:
pytest
Tests expect the development build of pydeck, specified above. Click on the URLs in the test output to see visualizations generated by the tests.
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