Well that happened.
A year and a half has flown by and I have nothing to show for it blogging-wise. But after a whirlwind 18 months, I've had a chance to catch my breath and return to extracurricular analytics and blogging. The blog has a new look and I just learned what Canva is, so by way of transition I present to you: a selection of things I've been up to since last January.
for more on Reboot Iowa, Inc., the start-up nonprofit I work with, see rebootiowa.org
I recently realized I technically had enough Python knowledge to recreate the Outfit-O-Tron 5000 in Python as an interactive script. I had a lot of fun working on this and learned a lot of little tidbits that will be helpful in the future.
Read MoreIf you’ve noticed an absence of posts in recent weeks, it’s because of the end-of-semester rush followed by three weeks of winter break. I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading and some basic programming practice, but not much worthy of writing about. To remedy that, I undertook a small project that could serve as a template for a contribution to a poetry project of my brother-in-law’s. Following the steps and code laid out in Dr. Healey’s text analytics page, I used Python to parse and analyze five poems (using each poem as a “document”) and Gephi to visualize the resulting TFIDF pairwise similarity network (using the “Expansion” layout):
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