Mapping COVID-19 Infections with Python: an Introduction to GeoPandas

<h1>I. What is GeoPandas?</h1> GeoPandas is an open source python project aimed at making geospatial data easier to work with. It’s essentially an extension of the Pandas library for data analysis, and provides a user-friendly interface for manipulating and plotting geospatial data (source: <a href="https://geopandas.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://geopandas.org/</a>). While stronger and more complex GIS software exists out there, GeoPandas is openly accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of Python and achieve basic visualization tasks. <a href="https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/mapping-covid-19-infections-in-toronto-with-python-an-introduction-to-plotting-with-geopandas-9e7a3b721c39">Website</a>