Plotting My Google Location History

I have been using Android phones since about 2010 and for the most part of it I have had location history enabled. If you enjoy data like I do then you may agree that this service is pretty awesome because Google let's you download a copy of the data it collects from you using Google Takeout. I recently downloaded a copy of the places I have visited and got to analyzing.

My data set for the period consists of approximately 985 000 records starting from 2012-02-19. I wanted to try the out the folium plotting library which combines the data analysis strength of Python and the mapping prowess of Leaflets.js however rendering all the records on a single map proved problematic on my machine. Therefore in order to reduce the data set I used k means to assign each point to 1 of 100 clusters. After reducing the data set I then proceeded to use mean longitude and latitude per cluster as a proxy for my location history. This reduced data renders instantly and it is interactive which is pretty cool. Below are a few screen shots of the result, I haven't been to the USA yet but it somehow got in there.

I am looking forward to doing some more traveling. If anyone is interested, here is the link to the code on Github.

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