Brew-nited States of America A Brief History of Craft Beer in the United States of America “Craft beer” is, at this point, ubiquitous – you’ll find it not just at trendy gastropubs but in the aisles of your local grocery store. In a world where IPAs and sours are a standard offering, the not-so-distant past […]
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Week 12 Update
I, once again, spent way too much time trying to accomplish a task before giving up and trying a new method. I tried to build an R function that would pull the titles all New York Times articles from 1860-2021 that mentioned a particular phrase and save them by year in separate datasets — I’m […]
Alright, after a bit of a mess last week, I think I’ve sorted myself out. Here’s a demo example of the WordPress theme that I’m going to adapt for my final product — I think it’s going to come out pretty cool. Readers will be able to scroll horizontally through the decades, journeying from modern […]
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Module 11 Update
Roadblocks & Difficulties So, after spending an obscenely long time trying to clean restaurant menu item data and at one point making it through one single decade of editing in an eight hour work day… I decided I need to revise my project idea. Part of it was that my quantitative-data-oriented brain wanted to make […]
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Module 9: Work
I’m using the “What’s On the Menu?” data, compiled by the New York Public Library. This is an archival dataset of thousands and thousands of restaurant, hotel, transportation, and special occasion menus from around the word, spanning from the 1850s to the 2010s. The NYPL is crowdsourcing the transcription, which means that any of us […]
At the beginning of the semester, I had planned to use a dataset I work with at my day job at the New York State AIDS Institute. My work focuses on analyses, visualization, and presentation of HIV/AIDS surveillance data — my unit produces all of the annual surveillance reports and any numbers, statistics, and graphs […]
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Module 5: Using Data
I chose Option A, and, as a second-generation Capital Region Italian (though my people are Schenectady, not Albany), I decided to create visualizations showing the number of Italian immigrants recorded in the Albany census from 1880-1940 (I excluded 1850, as Italy wasn’t yet a unified nation at that point..). The first slide shows the number […]
API Requests Webscraping Geocoding Gender Inference Being familiar with other programming languages is of course helpful, but sometimes it proves to be a hinderance when your brain keeps jumbling languages together. I use SAS and R for data analysis at work, and R is just similar enough to Python that I kept catching myself subconsciously […]
My Colab assignment is here and my Observable assignment is here. I enjoyed working with both of these platforms, as I’ve never used either before and they’re both useful tools for learning and practicing new programming languages without any barriers to entry – no need to download any software or do anything complex to just […]