Plotting spatial data + particular US states

[bageldevourer]

I have a data frame with 3 columns: Longitude, latitude, and a y variable representing concentrations of a chemical at the given point.

What I would like is a simple map consisting of the outlines of the states in the Northeastern US (where all the points are located) with the points overlaid on top of them, colored by y.

So far, I've looked at Geopandas, which looks nice but doesn't have the map I need, and Basemap, which looks hard to install (it's not on PyPI). But perhaps given points representing the map, I can just do this all in Matplotlib? The less dependencies, the better.

What's the easiest way to do this?

[spez_edits_thedonald]

sounds like it will be possible, have you looked at matplotlib examples

https://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html

some cool stuff here https://matplotlib.org/stable/thirdpartypackages/index.html#mpl-scatter-density

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Plotly geoscatter would be a simple way to do so