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Published inOct 2018
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Srinivasa Rao Poladi
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Srinivasa Rao Poladi has been in the IT services industry for over two decades, providing consulting and implementation services in data warehousing, business intelligence, and machine learning areas for global customers. He has worked with Wipro Technologies for two decades and played key leadership roles in building large technology practices and growing them to multi-million $ business. He spoke at international conferences, published many blogs and white papers in the areas of big data, business intelligence, and analytics. He is a co-founder of krtrimaIQ a consulting firm that provides cognitive solutions to create tomorrow's Intelligent Enterprises powered by automation, big data, machine learning, and deep learning.
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Nikhil Borkar holds a CQF designation and a post Graduate Degree in Quantitative finance. He also holds the Certified Financial Crime examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Professional qualifications. He is a registered Research Analyst with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and has a keen grasp of the Indian regulatory landscape pertaining to Securities and Investments. He is currently working as an independent FinTech and legal consultant. Prior to this, the worked with Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) as a Global RFP Project Manager.
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Geographical plotting using geopandas

In this recipe, we will learn how to plot geographical maps using the geopandas package that comes packaged with Matplotlib. There are third party packages supported by Matplotlib for advanced geographical maps, such as Basemap (being sunset in 2020) and Cartopy (replacing Basemap). We will learn to use Cartopy in Chapter 14, Plotting Geographical Maps Using Cartopy.

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import geopandas as gpd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

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Srinivasa Rao Poladi has been in the IT services industry for over two decades, providing consulting and implementation services in data warehousing, business intelligence, and machine learning areas for global customers. He has worked with Wipro Technologies for two decades and played key leadership roles in building large technology practices and growing them to multi-million $ business. He spoke at international conferences, published many blogs and white papers in the areas of big data, business intelligence, and analytics. He is a co-founder of krtrimaIQ a consulting firm that provides cognitive solutions to create tomorrow's Intelligent Enterprises powered by automation, big data, machine learning, and deep learning.
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Nikhil Borkar holds a CQF designation and a post Graduate Degree in Quantitative finance. He also holds the Certified Financial Crime examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Professional qualifications. He is a registered Research Analyst with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and has a keen grasp of the Indian regulatory landscape pertaining to Securities and Investments. He is currently working as an independent FinTech and legal consultant. Prior to this, the worked with Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) as a Global RFP Project Manager.
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