This guide is intended to be quick and easy, with the least amount of words and least amount of code, to show you how to plot data from a Pandas object on a world map using Matplotlib and Geopandas libraries.

The python libraries you need to install are pandas, geopandas and matplotlib. You can find the code for this tutorial on github: https://github.com/udiy/blogposts/tree/main/Easy%20map

The data in the Pandas object needs to have location coordinates, which means latitude and longitude. For this article, I am using data about fires in Australia, which can be found here: https://www.kaggle.com/carlosparadis/fires-from-space-australia-and-new-zeland.

The data comes from NASA satellites MODIS instrument, they monitor the fires from space, find acknowledgments at the end of this article. In the data, there’s a column called brightness, which is a measure of the temperature (in Kelvin) of the fire.

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