Hey CUSPers! Welcome to the heatmap sprint repo and notebook

Here's a breakdown of the notebook we'll be looking at:

We'll be downloading some NYC Census data that shows the city's population at 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2010. Then we'll make a heatmap to show how the population has changed over time across the 5 boroughs.

Next we'll be downloading a shapefile of NYC community districts to create a spatial map of the city. The data in this file defines the borders of the community districts.

There will be more details inside the notebook itself.

Tools used in the notebook:

If you want to download this repo and go through the code yourself here are the tools we'll be using.

1. Python
      The scripting language we'll be using
      Installation Page

2. Jupyter Notebook
      A text editor for python. You'll see it a lot in your courses
      Installation Page

3. Pandas
      A Python library that helps with organizing data
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4. Geopandas
      A Python library that helps with visualizing spatial data
      Installation Page

5. Matplotlib
      A Python library that helps with visualizing numeric data
      Installation Page

6. Seaborn
      A Python library built on top of matplotlib that helps with visualizing numeric data
      Installation Page