(ENH) speed up plot_spatial_weights for plotting spatial weights #42
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This PR is related to pysal/libpysal#123 regarding the faster plotting of spatial weights for a large data set. The current plot_spatial_weights function in splot seems to be essentially the same as the plot method for W in libpysal, both of which take a long time for a large data set.
An example is given in this notebook which tries to visualize the queen weight for a data set containing 4109 polygons. The implementations in splot and libpysal cost about 500 seconds while the updated implementation costs about 3 seconds.