[FIXED] Geopandas causing dead kernel

Issue

Currently trying to do some work with geopandas but when I try to use it either causes a dead kernel on Jupyter Notebook or the kernel to restart on Spyder.

I'm running Python 3.8.1, iPython 7.22.0, Jupyter Notebook 6.4.0 and Spyder 4.2.5 through Anaconda 2.0.3. I'm on a M1 Macbook Pro running macOS Big Sur version 11.0.

This is the first instance of using geopandas in my script:

world = geopandas.read_file(geopandas.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_lowres'))

Has anyone come across this issue before?

Solution

Geopandas now works on my machine.

The quickest way around it was to create a new environment with geopandas like so:

▶ conda create -n geo-env -c conda-forge geopandas                          

Answered By - nia