Download query results to a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame

Python

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sql = """
    SELECT created_date, complaint_description,
           ST_GEOGPOINT(longitude, latitude) as location
    FROM bigquery-public-data.austin_311.311_service_requests
    LIMIT 10
"""

df = client.query_and_wait(sql).to_geodataframe()