Data Explorations

Topic Modelling of Toronto Historical Plaques

Using Spacy and LDA to examine the main topics of local…

TorontoWalks — a custom walk generator

It’s been a long week of hunching over your computer… maybe…

Working with Open Data shape files using Geopandas — how to match up your data with the areas defined in the shape…

SQLAlchemy ORM — a more “Pythonic” way of interacting with your database

Chatting about books… can we predict which book-themed subreddit a particular post came from?

Tool Review: Can FeatureTools simplify the process of Feature Engineering?

Feature Engineering is a…

Thoughts on #VisionZero: first steps with the Twitter API and Word2Vec for text analysis

Understanding Python List Comprehensions

Coming to Python from other programming languages, I struggled at first to decipher list…

Where the pets are: using KMeans to cluster Toronto Neighbourhoods by Pet Ownership

Focus: generating an interactive legend in Altair

When you have a fairly large number of classes of data to plot, it can be hard to focus in on one class. Happily Altair provides a mechanism to use the legend to highlight only one class at a time.

Background

Map this… Comparing choropleth maps in Folium and Tableau Public

Reproducing the Baseball Salary visualization from FiveThirtyEight in Matplotlib

Generating GeoJSON File for Toronto FSAs

I wanted to create a Choropleth map for some Toronto data I have that is organized by FSA…

How to add Emojis to an Altair chart

I’m currently working on a mini-project about cat/dog ownership…