tristan mott

Playing with Open Data - Part Two

Round 2 of the Open Data dissection begins with a suggestion from a friend that use time of day to pare apart the data. Excellent suggestion Suba!! I’ll try and keep this breakdown to visualisations because the wall of text in the previous post might be too much.

Slovenia

One of the most-asked questions about my travelling last year is “Where was your favourite place?” It’s a simple question to answer for me, but my answer doesn’t always elicit understanding, so I thought I’d make a small post with some of my favourite thoughts and snaps from Slovenia.

Playing with Open Data

With a little time on my hands (in between what I should be doing, looking for a job), I thought it might be fun to have a quick look at the data made available by the Brisbane City Council as part of their “Open Data” initiative, to make sure I haven’t forgotten everything I learned about SQL and providing an opportunity for some more Python fun. The short summary is the data was somewhat inconsistent and incomplete (particularly the Title and Author fields are unreliable). There were still some interesting correlations and visualisations to be made. I’ll dig out what I can.