---
title: "Constructing Hexagon Maps with H3 and Plotly: A Comprehensive Tutorial"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/constructing-hexagon-maps-with-h3-and-plotly-a-comprehensive-tutorial-zy7ikyyyy
source_url: https://towardsdatascience.com/constructing-hexagon-maps-with-h3-and-plotly-a-comprehensive-tutorial-8f37a91573bb?source=rss----7f60cf5620c9---4
type: article
source: "Towards Data Science"
published: 2023-11-01T07:32:47.348Z
updated: 2023-10-31T23:32:01.254Z
tags: ["python", "data-science", "data-analysis", "data-visualization", "plotly"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Constructing Hexagon Maps with H3 and Plotly: A Comprehensive Tutorial

**[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This article provides a step-by-step explanation of how to create hexagonal maps in Python using the H3 and Plotly libraries. It discusses the advantages of using hexagons for data visualization across a territory and uses a dataset of hotels in Barcelona to demonstrate the process. The article covers data cleaning, hexagon grid generation, hotel assignment to hexagons, data grouping, and the final visualization using Plotly.

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