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Scraping and Visualizing …

Summary: This small project started out with two goals: web scraping and visualizing movement data. As the project developed, I found that the web scraping took most of the time, and the visualization was best left to well-developed javascript frameworks, rather than developing it from scratch. …

Visualizing the …

In January 2019, Axios produced a data visualization to demonstrate how the partial government shutdown was impacting different states and how that related to the outcomes of the 2016 presidential election. The visualization is a little confusing because there are two color scales, one for states …

Analyzing Cyclist Crash …

In a previous post, I determined that there was not enough data available to assess the impact of bike lane installation on cyclist incident rates in Washington DC. The methodology I pursued in that post was based on a 2012 article in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) that conducted an …