Beautiful, Interactive, and Portable Maps using Folium and Live API Data

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Shows how to combine Folium + Leaflet.js with live APIs (Census, WMATA, Walkscore) plus Flask and simple caching so Python produces HTML/JS maps that render in a notebook or serve on Heroku. Demonstrates a working bus tracker fed by WMATA, choropleth maps from census GeoJSON, and Walkscore-colored routes that reveal route-by-route walkability. All examples run end-to-end; deployment works but Heroku filesystem and API rate limits make caching and persistence a known constraint.

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1. 0:00DIY mapping with Python
2. 3:43Maps as data visualization
3. 5:33Folium and Leaflet
4. 7:03Basic bus tracking map
5. 13:50Save and share maps
6. 14:10Fetch live API data
7. 15:34Cache API calls
8. 18:29Census data visualization
9. 25:18Walk Score boundaries
10. 28:51Bus routes by walkability
11. 31:18Deploy maps on Heroku
12. 33:31Q&A

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