Visualizing the Paris Subway Network

This project builds a small-multiple visualization of the Paris subway network.

You can read more about this project here.

Here is a low-res version of the output. Each point is a subway station. Each circle is a subway line (color is official line color and circle size is proportional to line number)

You should download the code and run it yourself to get a higher image resolution or a .pdf output.

Running the code

Requires Python > 3.3.

$ git clone https://github.com/BenjaminHabert/Paris_Subway_Dataviz.git
$ cd Paris_Subway_Dataviz
$ make install
$ make pipeline

Pipeline steps

• get the list of stations and lines from wikipedia
• for each line: get the color of the line by looking at the proper div in it's own wikipedia page
• create image from the collected dataset

Intermediate (.csv files) and final (.png and .pdf images) are stored in data/ and are not committed to the repository.