diff --git a/datascience/__init__.py b/datascience/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..50e2085e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/datascience/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+from .table import *
+from .maps import *
diff --git a/datascience/maps/__init__.py b/datascience/maps/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94f8cafc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/datascience/maps/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+from .loader import *
+from .maps import *
+
+init_js()
diff --git a/datascience/maps/js/maps.js b/datascience/maps/js/maps.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..66fa90c69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/datascience/maps/js/maps.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Registers the Backbone view for the Polymap widget, although for now this is
+// a dummy view until we can get everything hooked up properly.
+// TODO(sam): Make this actually do things.
+
+require(["widgets/js/widget", "widgets/js/manager"], function(widget, manager) {
+    var TestWidgetView = widget.DOMWidgetView.extend({
+        render: function() {
+            this.$el.text("Hello world!");
+        }
+    });
+
+    manager.WidgetManager.register_widget_view('TestWidgetView', TestWidgetView);
+});
diff --git a/datascience/maps/loader.py b/datascience/maps/loader.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44e561370
--- /dev/null
+++ b/datascience/maps/loader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from IPython.display import display_javascript
+
+__maps_js_has_initialized__ = False
+
+# Uses a hack to load the Javascript needed to render the map. Becaose of this,
+# calls to draw_map cannot be in the same cell as the import statement.
+#
+# Maybe it's a good idea to put this login in a line magic?
+def init_js():
+    global __maps_js_has_initialized__
+    if not __maps_js_has_initialized__:
+        # Keep in sync with the the data_files variable in setup.py
+        display_javascript("IPython.load_extensions('datascience_js/maps')")
diff --git a/datascience/maps/maps.py b/datascience/maps/maps.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d1dea5cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/datascience/maps/maps.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from IPython.html import widgets # Widget definitions
+from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
+
+"""
+This file contains the Python backend to draw maps with overlaid polygons.
+TODO(sam): Actually make this draw maps
+"""
+
+class TestWidget(widgets.DOMWidget):
+    _view_name = Unicode('TestWidgetView', sync=True)
+    _view_module = Unicode('maps', sync=True)
+
+
+def draw_map(center, zoom, points=[], regions=[]):
+    """Draw a map with center & zoom containing all points and
+    regions that displays points as circles and regions as polygons.
+
+    center -- lat-long pair at the center of the map
+    zoom -- zoom level
+    points -- a sequence of MapPoints
+    regions -- a sequence of MapRegions
+    """
+    # Some magic to get javascript to display the map
+
+class MapPoint:
+    """A circle https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/shapes#circles"""
+    def __init__(self, center, radius, strokeColor, strokeOpacity, strokeWeight, fillColor, fillOpacity):
+        pass
+
+class MapRegion:
+    """A polygon https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/shapes#polygons"""
+    def __init__(self, paths, strokeColor, strokeOpacity, strokeWeight, fillColor, fillOpacity):
+        """paths -- a list of lat-long pairs or a list of list of lat-long pairs"""
+        pass
diff --git a/datascience.py b/datascience/table.py
similarity index 99%
rename from datascience.py
rename to datascience/table.py
index 85750a5f7..ea44a997c 100644
--- a/datascience.py
+++ b/datascience/table.py
@@ -667,7 +667,6 @@ def __len__(self):
         def __repr__(self):
             return '{0}({1})'.format(type(self).__name__, repr(self._table))
 
-
 def _zero_on_type_error(column_fn):
     """Wrap a function on an np.ndarray to return 0 on a type error."""
     @functools.wraps(column_fn)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 162ca2088..14de7ebd2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import sys
-from distutils.core import setup
+import os
+import IPython
+from setuptools import setup
 from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
 
 install_requires = [
@@ -31,15 +33,23 @@ def run_tests(self):
         sys.exit(errno)
 
 
+# Installs GMaps Javascript in the nbextensions folder for loading.
+# We load this file using IPython.load_extensions('datascience_js/maps') in
+# Javascript. Keep in sync with the path in maps/leader.py
+ipython_dir = IPython.utils.path.get_ipython_dir()
+data_files = [(os.path.join(ipython_dir, "nbextensions/datascience_js"),
+               ["datascience/maps/js/maps.js"] )]
+
 setup(
   name = 'datascience',
-  py_modules = ['datascience'],
-  version = '0.2.1',
+  packages = ['datascience'],
+  version = '0.2.2',
   install_requires = install_requires,
   tests_require = test_requires,
+  data_files = data_files,
   cmdclass = {'test': PyTest},
-  description = 'A Python library for introductory data science',
-  author = 'John DeNero, David Culler, Alvin Wan',
+  description = 'A Jupyter notebook Python library for introductory data science',
+  author = 'John DeNero, David Culler, Alvin Wan, Sam Lau',
   author_email = 'ds-instr@berkeley.edu',
   url = 'https://github.com/dsten/datascience',
   download_url = 'https://github.com/dsten/datascience/archive/0.2.0.zip',