Post

UK University Locations

The UK has around 160 universities, located around the country. Here is a map of UK University Locations, made using Folium.

Download the UK university locations data [csv] Access the list of UK universities

Python Code For UK University Locations

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
import pandas as pd
import folium
from pandas import compat
compat.PY3 = True
universities = pd.read_csv("uk_universities_locations.csv")
uk = folium.Map(location=[universities.lat.mean(axis=0),universities.lon.mean(axis=0)], zoom_start=5)
marker_cluster = folium.MarkerCluster("Universities").add_to(uk)
#add a marker for each university
for each in universities.iterrows():
    folium.Marker(list([each[1]['lat'],each[1]['lon']]),popup=each[1]['Name']).add_to(marker_cluster)
uk.save("universities.html")

How to convert postcodes to coordinates

This post is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the author.