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Formatting Flow Data for Sankey Diagram

March 3, 2018 / Leave a Comment

At first sight, the Sankey diagram appeared to me as a very cool data visualization but impractical for discovering impactful insights. That’s probably because I didn’t know how to build them quickly to explore my own data. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been able to take the time to build some of these charts … [Read more…]

Continuously Collecting API Data with Python and Digital Ocean

July 6, 2016 / Leave a Comment

A few months ago, I wanted to collect minutely Uber surge price data over the course of a week between Penn Station, NY. and Union Square, NY. I wrote a python script to call Uber’s API every minute and record the response to a text file (as basic as it gets). Then, I tried to … [Read more…]