Joe Murphy freejoe76
| # Find the URL of the python you want here: https://www.python.org/downloads/source/ , you're looking for the "Gzipped source tarball" link of the version you want. | |
| # We're doing 3.10 here for this example. | |
| wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.13/Python-3.10.13.tgz | |
| tar -xf Python-3.10.13.tgz && cd Python-3.10.13 | |
| ./configure --enable-optimizations | |
| make && sudo make altinstall | |
| # This won't override an existing python3 – it creates a python3.10 executable. |
A roundup of what the news nerds slack suggested for a reporter who was looking to up their data skills.
This is what I asked:
I had a question from a business reporter who was looking to up their data game in their own time, was thinking of either doing Python / PANDAS, or R, or maybe just upping their Excel skills. They're interested in learning how to do data exploration and maybe a little bit of scraping. They asked me for where to go to learn this and I didn't have a lot of good answers -- thought I'd ask here what people who have done the same thing can recommend.
And these are the responses:
I did the coursera john hopkins data science program, it taught me R and helped give me a foundational introduction to data science, but that was a pretty decent time investment, so obviously not right for everyone
The Data/Graphics team at NBC News is responsible for explaining the news through visualizations and data analysis.
We build interactives, charts, maps, illustrations, graphics and more to tell the news in a compelling and thoughtful way. See our recent work: https://www.nbcnews.com/datagraphics
The intern should be interested in data visualizations and be an avid news reader. They should have an interest in data journalism and will help find stories that we could be telling in a new and visual way. They will also help create charts, maps and graphics for breaking news stories and for reported features.
Note that this internship is only available to those who will be current students at the time of the internship.
I hereby claim:
- I am freejoe76 on github.
- I am person09520 (https://keybase.io/person09520) on keybase.
- I have a public key whose fingerprint is 7BE1 F63C 28C3 7A28 64E8 042B C6D2 2066 83F1 7FB0
To claim this, I am signing this object:
| #!/usr/bin/bash | |
| URL='https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf' | |
| while [ True ]; do | |
| RANDO=$(openssl rand -base64 40 | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z'; openssl rand -base64 40 | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z') | |
| wget -O full-mueller-report.pdf "$URL?$RANDO" | |
| if [[ $? -ne 8 ]]; then | |
| # Upload it to wherever it belongs | |
| say "We've got it" | |
| break; | |
| fi |
A walk-through on slimming down a CSV, getting some information about its fields, slimming down the columns we're working with and pulling information about those columns.
https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.2/scripts/csvcut.html
Csvkit can work slow on large CSVs, so for the sake of this walk-through we're going to work with 5,000 rows of the CSV.
| <table> | |
| <caption>Country populations, 2018</caption> | |
| <thead> | |
| <tr> | |
| <th scope="col" abbr="">Country</th> | |
| <th scope="col" abbr="">Population</th> | |
| </tr> | |
| </thead> | |
| <tbody> | |
| <tr> |