Example of animated maps in matplotlib + geopandas using entire time series of congressional district maps

Sep 11, 2021 1 min read

AnimatedMaps_US_CDs

Example of animated maps in matplotlib + geopandas using entire time series of congressional district maps from UCLA archive

0_get.py
downloads 114 zips of shapefiles to a local directory
downloads a crosswalk of congress number to start-year for the figure header
1_animate_congressional_districts_map.ipynb
reads geometries from each of the shapefile zips and pickles geometries
produces an animated map that looks like

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Example of animated maps in matplotlib + geopandas using entire time series of congressional district maps

AnimatedMaps_US_CDs

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