How to Overlay UK Postcode Sectors onto a Map

In this tutorial I’m going to show how you can overlay UK postcode sectors onto a map. I recently had to do this for the project: A Data Scientist goes…House Hunting. There are always difficulties to overcome, and in this project, package incompatibility was certainly a serious obstacle.  However, once this was fully understood, I developed a method which consolidates the necessary components. This allowed me to render a map with the overlay. I also implemented a cool hover tool that enables the user to interact with the map.

As with most of my development, I am using a Jupyter Notebook for the rest of the post: