This is a followup visualization from my post on analyzing Boston’s AirBnB. The below embedding is less than perfect, so please check it out fullscreen. If it’s not rendering well for you, this is what you should see. The Python to convert the raw data to geojson is super straightforward. …
I run a Discord server for my friends. We’ve essentially given up texting and now use Discord for virtually all communication. This server has been running since about January 2016, and we now have around 75 users and collectively we’ve sent almost 200,000 messages. I scraped all of this data …
Khan Academy Virus Propagation Part of the interview process at Khan Academy is to complete their interview project. This project deals with virus propagation through a directed network. We will be using the terms “graph” and “network” interchangeably, but I’m referring to the same thing for both. From a high …
Adapted as a talk for the Boulder Python Meetup Download archive here, or from gitlab.com/thedataleek/politicalboundaries. Press the space-bar to proceed to the next slide. See here for a brief tutorial Expand Code
After having some Applied Math friends rant to me at how awful plotting was in Python I decided to write up a quick guide to hopefully change their minds. Numpy This assumes a basic familiarity with numpy, although I’ll go over the basics really quickly just in case. The syntax/API …
Introduction On Monday I attended the CU Boulder Computer Science Senior Projects Expo, and there was one project in particular that I thought was pretty neat: determining areas of civil unrest through Twitter post analysis. They had some pretty cool visuals and used Apache Spark, so I figured I’d try …
