Creating a heat map

[Tommo.]

Hi all,

Bit of a random one, I have some data consisting of a few thousand postcodes in a UK city that I am looking to create a heat map from. The idea is it will show where most people are choosing to live. Done some googling but haven't been able to find a way of doing it so thought I'd ask here in case anybody knows?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Darren S]

Something like this, perhaps?

https://mapline.com/features/create...2idYNG1zAm9O4zNyB3iZw2ffmfRPiLSIaAr3vEALw_wcB

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

If you mean building from scratch then Python is a decent thing to learn for that purpose. If you mean "is there a tool I can dump some post codes in and get a heat map" then there's probably something by Google that you can use.

 

[White16valver]

Datashine has the Travel To Work info (therefore home and work postcode data and mode of travel used) from the 2011 census data - I'm not sure if that would be any use or if there's anything else they've done that could help?

http://commute.datashine.org.uk/#mo...soa=undefined&zoom=12&lon=-0.1500&lat=51.5200


Although surely the answer to 'Where do people choose to live?' is just 'nowhere north of this line'...??

 

[welshname]

It exists within Excel

https://grindgis.com/software/how-to-create-a-geographical-heat-map-in-excel

 

[nebraska182]

Datashine has the Travel To Work info (therefore home and work postcode data and mode of travel used) from the 2011 census data - I'm not sure if that would be any use or if there's anything else they've done that could help?

http://commute.datashine.org.uk/#mo...soa=undefined&zoom=12&lon=-0.1500&lat=51.5200


Although surely the answer to 'Where do people choose to live?' is just 'nowhere north of this line'...??

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I guess Leeds doesnt exist,haha.

 

[SharkyUK]

Google maps API with Heatmap Layer or Fusion Tables. You will need a developer API key and some basic programming skills for this method though (and somewhere to host your web page as it is browser based).

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/heatmaplayer

 

[Tommo.]

Thanks all for the suggestions. Hoping I can do something with Excel as mentioned by @welshname. I will let you know how it goes.