Web Scraping and APIs
Lazy D3 on some astronomical data
I can’t claim to be anything near an expert on D3 (a JavaScript library for data visualisation) but being both greedy and lazy I wondered if I could get some nice results with minimum effort. In any case the hardest thing about D3 for a novice to the world of web design seems to be … Continue reading
Graphing the history of philosophy
This one came about because I was searching for a data set on horror films (don’t ask) and ended up with one describing the links between philosophers. To cut a long story very short I’ve extracted the information in the influenced by section for every philosopher on Wikipedia and used it to construct a network … Continue reading
The changing face of “Analysis”
Here’s something I started to write a few months ago, but never got around to finish it off. Neil Charles over at Wallpapering Fog has just written an excellent post about the growing importance of R and Tableau to the modern day analyst. Although not as old in the tooth as Neil (sorry Neil), even … Continue reading
Google Refine: One of The Best Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard About
Lots of data that’s available online tends to not be the cleanest thing in the world, particularly if you’ve had to scrape it in the first place. At the same time, lots of internal data sets can be just as messy, with columns having different names in what should be identical spreadsheet templates, or with … Continue reading
Posts we like
- What Facebook Knows - Technology Review
- Use Decision-Driven Visualization to Activate (Big) Data by Lee Feinberg - BeyeNETWORK
- Wallpapering Fog: It's never been about the data
- Twitter Data Scientist Takes on McDonald's Entire Menu, Survives - Technology Review
- Obama Campaign’s Vast Effort to Re-Enlist ’08 Supporters - NYTimes.com
