[Notebook] Tutorial - Folium Mapping

[acblackford]

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This notebook shows a tutorial on how to use Folium to create an interactive mapping experience similar to the VEDA environment.

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[tylanderson]

Line #5.    import plotutils as putils

issue: currently this is not included alongside and will error on import.

I might suggest that if this is meant to be an exploration of folium in general with VEDA, that you not rely on it and instead pull relevant sections that demonstrate how to use folium along side VEDA into the notebook (will be longer but expose users to the functions if they would like to modify)

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[acblackford]

@tylanderson plotutils is a notebook organization tactic that @freitagb has already approved for prior notebooks built to support Data Stories. Would plotutils not be able to be used in tutorial notebooks as well?

[tylanderson]

I did see that 2024 tornadoes notebook uses plotutils, as a sidecar, however that is not in the same folder as this notebook or installed as a package, so the immediate issue is that the import will not resolve and this first cell will error

[tylanderson]

Line #8.    items = list(results.items())

suggestion: You could change this to get the first item if that's all that's needed with next(results.items(), None)

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