Tag: python
Exploring climate data using the Python libraries Matplotlib and Pandas
If you’ve just grabbed a new dataset and you want to look for interesting trends, making some exploratory graphs in Jupyter Notebook is a good way to start. I usually […]
Mapping toxic waste release sites using the Python library GeoPandas
Plotting positional information on maps can reveal geographic trends and makes for an effective visualization to accompany an article. In this tutorial, we’ll use Jupyter Notebook and a Python library […]
How to collect tweets from the Twitter Streaming API using Python
Twitter provides a comprehensive streaming API that developers can use to download data about tweets in real-time, if they can figure out how to use it effectively. In this tutorial, […]
How to build a heatmap in Python
Heatmaps are effective visualization tools for representing different values of data over a specific geographical area. You could, for example, use them for temperatures, rainfall or electricity use. In this […]
How to install R on a Jupyter notebook
This post walks through how to install R on a Jupyter notebook, load in data and build a visualization. Start by installing python using homebrew. Install python Open Terminal and enter the […]
How to download song lyrics from Genius using Python
Coding and I are not on the best of terms. After a traumatic three-year stretch in middle school in which I barely scraped by in my computer science classes, I […]
How Axios built an animated map showing hurricane paths hitting the Carolinas
When Hurricane Florence made landfall in the United States last month, few could anticipate the strange journey the hurricane would take. While many major hurricanes have hit the Carolinas, it […]
How to scrape Reddit with Python
Last month, Storybench editor Aleszu Bajak and I decided to explore user data on nootropics, the brain-boosting pills that have become popular for their productivity-enhancing properties. Many of the substances […]
How The Boston Globe uncovered fraud at Massachusetts nonprofits
Recently, the Internal Revenue Service made more than 2.3 million forms filed by nonprofits from all over the country available in an online database, open to the public. Todd Wallack, a […]
Getting started with Python and Jupyter Notebooks for data analysis
Let’s talk about Python for data analysis. In this tutorial, you will learn some simple data analysis processes while exploring a dataset with Python and Pandas. Before we get started, […]
Winter is here: How Vox mapped snow accumulation in the U.S.
The first big snowstorms have hit the East Coast and their effects have fascinated Vox’s developer Soo Oh, who recently built a map to track snow accumulation across the U.S. The project relies on […]