Analysis of State Schools in Scotland: Map of Scotland with Schools
Project description Language: Python, HTML Libraries: folium, pandas, numpy, requests, json IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Jupyter Notebook Project type: Data analytics, Web scraping, Map formation, API Keywords: Scotland, schools, deprivation, map Photo by ali elliott on Unsplash Postcodes API The available contact information for the schools solely consists of their postcodes and seedcodes. Consequently, in order to accurately locate each school on a map, I required latitude and longitude values for each establishment. In my search for geolocation information, I discovered an open platform called Postcodes IO. This platform offers a free API that allows access to the server and retrieval of geolocation information for every UK postcode. The collected data was presented in a JSON format. To obtain a comprehensive dataset from postcodes.io, I utilized various endpoints of the API, including the following: ...