README.md

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title: Alaska Lightning Strikes Visualization
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sdk: streamlit
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app_file: app.py
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Alaska Lightning Strikes Visualization

This project visualizes lightning strikes in Alaska using geopandas and contextily to plot the data on an interactive map in a Streamlit application.

Description

This application reads lightning strike data from a shapefile, projects it to a different coordinate reference system, and plots it on an interactive map with a basemap for better visualization. The data is plotted using geopandas and the basemap is added using contextily.

Setup

To run this application, you need the following dependencies:

• streamlit
• geopandas
• contextily
• matplotlib

These dependencies are listed in the requirements.txt file and will be automatically installed when you deploy this application on Hugging Face Spaces.

Usage

To use the application:

1. Input the shapefile path to load the data.
2. The application will process the data and visualize it on a map.