Visualizing data with Deck.gl

December 6, 2021

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deck.gl is a WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets.

Download and Installation

Github: Deck.gl

Deck.gl

With Python

It is recommended with virtual environment.

pip install pydeck

Set a MAPBOX_API_KEY or GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY environment variables, so pydeck will detect them.

In this case, I am using WSL, to set the environment variables:

Tutorial

1. Open Jupyterlab

   jupyter-lab

2. Create a new python file:
   we stored our data in PostgreSQL server. In this case, We use psycopg and sqlio from pandas to extract data to dataframe in Python: