This project was originally started as a way to learn some of the tools involved well enough to help somebody else learn how to do it. My sister was trying to learn how to program python for a data science class. I tinker with c# a bit, but don't know python really at all. In trying to put together some resources to help her learn stuff like numpy and matplotlib and what a data-frame is, I ran into several roadblocks. How much was me not understanding the material, and how much is not actually out there? Like, how to resize and move Alaska for a map inset seems like it should be trivial, but the only resources I've come across that explain how to do that are in R with some other library even though I specifically searched for how to do it with python and geopandas. Maybe I just need to get a better grasp on how matplotlib works, but this seems like something other people will be trying to figure out for python and geopandas and they could just keep finding how to do it in R.
Lets get some documentation together to explain how to do these things with these tools. Also some documentation to walk people through the issues with installing things with pip, then installing anaconda to get conda to install geopandas, then you have 2 or 3 python environments, how the hell do you even make all this stuff work. Like, visual studio is a great IDE for various languages, but has issues displaying plots, so then switching to pycharm and how the hell do you get that to work with github? What is a jupyter notebooks kernal and how do you restart it and when?
This project was originally started as a way to learn some of the tools involved well enough to help somebody else learn how to do it. My sister was trying to learn how to program python for a data science class. I tinker with c# a bit, but don't know python really at all. In trying to put together some resources to help her learn stuff like numpy and matplotlib and what a data-frame is, I ran into several roadblocks. How much was me not understanding the material, and how much is not actually out there? Like, how to resize and move Alaska for a map inset seems like it should be trivial, but the only resources I've come across that explain how to do that are in R with some other library even though I specifically searched for how to do it with python and geopandas. Maybe I just need to get a better grasp on how matplotlib works, but this seems like something other people will be trying to figure out for python and geopandas and they could just keep finding how to do it in R.
Lets get some documentation together to explain how to do these things with these tools. Also some documentation to walk people through the issues with installing things with pip, then installing anaconda to get conda to install geopandas, then you have 2 or 3 python environments, how the hell do you even make all this stuff work. Like, visual studio is a great IDE for various languages, but has issues displaying plots, so then switching to pycharm and how the hell do you get that to work with github? What is a jupyter notebooks kernal and how do you restart it and when?