python: combining interpolation with heatmaps
I saw Brandon Mechtley's splmap which is for plotting sound-pressure measurements on a map. He mentioned a problem: the default "heatmap" rendering you get in google maps is really a density estimate which combines the density of the points with their values. "I need to find a way to average rather than add" he says.
Just playing with this, here's my take on the situation. You don't average the values, you create some kind of interpolated overall map, but separately you also use the density of datapoints to decide how confident you are in your estimate at various points on the map. Python code is here and here's an example plot:
Dataviz folks might already have a name for this...
Syndicated 2013-04-16 10:33:02 (Updated 2013-04-16 10:42:43) from Dan Stowell