The goal of this map was to plot the locations that Dolly Parton has performed in over the years. Venue names were sourced from the concert archives site and OpenStreetMap was used to find the latitude and longitude value for each venue.

During the 30 day map challenge there was a significant time constraint and given the co-ordinates for each concert venue were sourced and compiled by hand, the map produced only showed venues between 1972 and 2007. Since then, the remaining data has been compiled, the code re run and there is now a map up to date to 2022. Both versions of the map can be accessed below:

Skills/Technologies:

Python

• Pandas
• Plotly

Code and Data:

• Code
• Data

Notes:

• OpenStreetMap used to find lat/long values for each concert venue.

  • Data goes from 1972 to 2007 - Concert archive has data up until the present but after more than 4 hrs to gather the data for the first 185 concerts, and with another 219 to take me to the present day, it was taking too long to gather the data.

  Hence the map does not show data from 2008-2022.

• This map could be really interesting though and the completed dataset is worth sharing on my public dataset repo so I'll probably come back to it.

• Might also be interesting to play with the hexbin size a bit more.

• Colour scheme inspired by Dolly Parton's website

• Might be a cool project so set up a repo for doing these kinds of maps for lots of different artists...