From b69524fa3489be21dd9130556e1c93e5beb05f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John DeSanto <202220+jdesanto@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:17:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed file load so it will happen only once

---
 ads/dataset/sampled_dataset.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ads/dataset/sampled_dataset.py b/ads/dataset/sampled_dataset.py
index 8d420c1c7..978acb922 100644
--- a/ads/dataset/sampled_dataset.py
+++ b/ads/dataset/sampled_dataset.py
@@ -704,9 +704,10 @@ def _visualize_feature_distribution(self, html_widget):
                     df, geometry=geopandas.points_from_xy(df["lon"], df["lat"])
                 )
 
-                self.world = geopandas.read_file(
-                    geopandas.datasets.get_path("naturalearth_lowres")
-                )
+                if not hasattr(self, "world"):
+                    self.world = geopandas.read_file(
+                        geopandas.datasets.get_path("naturalearth_lowres")
+                    )
 
                 self.world.plot(
                     ax=ax, color="lightgrey", linewidth=0.5, edgecolor="white"