Plotly Express in Python : Is it possible to create 'choropleth mapbox ' using state abbreviations?

[Kenjiro]

Hello, Plotliers

Plotly newbie’s here. Is it possible to create ‘choropleth mapbox’ using state abbreviations or should I convert state abbs to fips first?

Thank you so much.

Here is the dataset example.

Here is what I have done using plotly express

import plotly
import plotly.express as px

from urllib.request import urlopen
import json
with urlopen('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/geojson-counties-fips.json') as response:
    counties = json.load(response)

fig = px.choropleth_mapbox(df, geojson=counties, locations='state', color='n',
                           color_continuous_scale="Viridis",
                           mapbox_style="carto-positron",
                           zoom=3, center = {"lat": 37.0902, "lon": -95.7129},
                           opacity=0.5,
                           labels={'unemp':'unemployment rate'}
                          )
fig.update_layout(margin={"r":0,"t":0,"l":0,"b":0})
fig.show()

Here is the output of my code

Here is what I am trying to create