I was on Github looking at something else (as always) when I saw someone I follow forking an R repository called Polite. Dmytry’s markdown to explain the pillars of politeness are well written and absolutely applicable to the wider corners of scraping that a lot of analysts do using tools like Alteryx.
Category: Data Analysis
The Ethics of Overtime in Technology
Recently, I took on the mantle of teaching data ethics and security to colleagues who join my company. The training runs over a whole day, but I still feel there’s so much I can’t cover. Making some tea this morning, I realised one of the really important ones was an item that comes up at work under the radar a lot, which is the ethics of overtime.
Should I Scrape This? Planning Notes on Inspecting Websites
Webscraping can vary between wildly hard (purposefully or otherwise) and being the notch below an open API to extract data. However, there are often some hints you can use to check whether or not a particular site will be one of the easy or hard ones.
Translating Tidy Data Tip: Key Transformation Functions in Alteryx, R and Python
There’s a lot of data where one observation to a human (e.g. one survey) isn’t ideally one observation to the query language of a database system.
My First Week using Alteryx
You’re not really meant to say this when you are (or have been) a data analyst/scientist/whatever, but I have a limited patience/tolerance for the reformatting and cleaning of data.
Communicating Data: The Warming Stripes (Tie)
The story of The Warming Stripes needs little in the way of explicit direction, which is also why it is so adaptable to odd media (like ties and earrings).
#BeAWomanInDataViz Tableau Workshop
I haven’t felt compelled to write on this blog in some time, partly out of time and partly out having … More
Radovan Karadzic conviction: statistics and Human Rights
Yesterday in the Hague, Radovan Karadzic was convicted for 40 years for his role in the Bosnian war. What some people may not know is that statistical analysis of migrational movements and killings was one of the ways external observers demonstrated that there was a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Serbia.