#tableau

Learn About Tableau I thought I would have a look at some open data and I came across the crime data set. The data used is: Recorded Crime Dataset (NSW) Postcode 2011 to Local Government Area 2011 Using R I thought this was a good opportunity to practise some R skills, though it could have easily been accomplished in Python as well. In order to read the data into R “nicely” I saved the relevant data into csv format. [Read More]

This weekend, I decided to create a visualisation, to the best of my ability using the hat restaurant list from Gault and Millau Sydney Restaurant Guide. The result is here, and the screenshot is below: Lessons Learn Scraping the Table This is not the first (and probably not the last time) I will scrap data off websites like that. Firstly the table from www.noodlies.com is slightly malformed. It isn’t quite in the format you expect, and is not in unicode format which makes apostrophes look strange in python (when you force it into unicode). [Read More]