In this post, geocoded data for all property price sales in Ireland from 2012-2017 is available. Data is sourced on the Irish Property Price Register and geocoded using the Google geocoding script in Python. All of the GPS latitude/longitude coordinates are further tied to census small area and electoral division boundaries.
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Want better colours for ggplot2? “Ggthemr” is an R package that provides new colour themes and also the specification of your own colour palettes. Change the look and feel of your ggplot2 plots in R with two quick commands! Beautiful figures await!
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Aggregation and data grouping of Dataframes is accomplished in Python Pandas using “groupby()” and “agg()” functions. In this post, we’ll look at every aspect of grouping by single or multiple columns, applying aggregation functions such as max, min, count, and naming the resulting Dataframes and Pandas Series.
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Self-Organising Maps Self-Organising Maps (SOMs) are an unsupervised data visualisation technique that can be used to visualise high-dimensional data sets in lower (typically 2) dimensional representations. In this post, we examine the use of R to create a SOM for customer segmentation. The figures shown here used use the 2011 Irish Census information for the
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“Is there any online reading or courses I can do to get into data analysis?” At my workplace, I get asked the question above. The question is usually posed by people typically with a finance background, who’s working as a management consultant. In this post I propose a learning path for such people to “get
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The Web Summit, Europes largest technology-industry conference was held in Dublin this week. An annual event since 2010, the Web Summit attracted over ten thousand visitors from over 90 countries. The Web Summit puts Ireland on the international startup and internet scene. With speakers like Elon Musk (founder of Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla) and representatives from
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