SUNY Buffalo State

Geospatial Programming Materials

Spatial Data

HTML intro to spatial data LINK


Open Data and Geopandas Basics

HTML of Jupyter Notebook on open data and geopandas basics. LINK

Assignment posted at end of Notebook.


Metadata and Queries for Open Data

HTML of Jupyter Notebook on open data Metadata and Queries. LINK

Assignment posted at end of Notebook.


Links to Sample Maps


Visualizing Spatial Data

Graduated Circles - Frequent Vehicle Tows

Graduated Circles- Distributed Vehicle Tows

Graduated Circles, Classified Fisher-Jenks k=6, Distributed Vehicle Tows

Choropleth - Vehicle Tow Density

Choropleth, Classified Fisher-Jenks k=6, Vehicle Tow Density

Choropleth, Linear Color Mapper - Vehicle Tow Density

Choropleth, Log Color Mapper - Vehicle Tow Density


Visualizing Spatial Data Spring 2021

Graduated Circles - Frequent Vehicle Tows

Graduated Circles- Distributed Vehicle Tows

Graduated Circles, Classified Fisher-Jenks k=6, Distributed Vehicle Tows

Choropleth - Vehicle Tow Density Lear and Log Cmaps

Choropleth, Classified Fisher-Jenks, Vehicle Tow Density

Predominance Map of CDC Health Outcomes by County

Maps from Visualization Assignment

Graduated Circles- Distributed by Borough - Residential Complaints

Graduated Circles- Distributed by Borough - Commercial Complaints

Choropleth- Distributed by Borough - Residential Complaints / Sq. Ki.

Choropleth- Distributed by Borough - Commercial Complaints / Sq. Ki.


Spatial Data Processing

Buffalo Public Schools

Buffalo Fire Hydrantss

Buffalo Residential Properties - Tax Assessment Roll 2019-2020

Fire Hydrants near Elementary Schools

Buffalo Potential Road Bridges (Overpasses)

Buffalo Road/Rail Bridges (Overpasses), at-grade, and Underpasses

Black or African American Population Near Elementary Schools

Nearest Neighbor Fire Risk Assessment

This map shows assigned fire risk for a random sample (33%) of residential tax properties instead of the entire dataset.


Spatial Processing Assignment Maps

Problem 1 - Closest high school to Residences

High Schools from Buffalo Public Schools 2019-2020 dataset

Unique Public High School Locations in Buffalo

Residences by Type Near High School Locations

Closest Residences to High School Locations

Frequency Histogram
Matplotlib Frequency Histogram

Horizontal Bar Chart
Matplotlib Horizontal Bar Chart