Character encodings and why you need to know about them

Working with text data can be fun, but also tricky. Always be careful of which encoding system you are using, specially if you are dealing with characters or graphemes unknown to the English alphabet.

By Carlos A. Toruño P.

September 9, 2023

Exploding geometries with GeoPandas

Some geographical data sources include Taiwan as part of China. In this post, I show you how to split these territories without having to use other data source.

By Carlos A. Toruño P.

July 29, 2023

Programming Web Apps with Streamlit

Streamlit is an increasingly popular framework for developing web applications. In this post, I will introduce the Streamlit library and show a step-by-step guide on how to build simple applications with it.

By Carlos A. Toruño P.

May 25, 2023

The beauty of bee swarm plots

Visualizing data distributions is one of the most important steps in exploratory analysis. In this post, I’ll be showing you how to incoporate bee swarm plots as one of your available options using real data from The World Justice Project.

By Carlos A. Toruño P.

March 5, 2023

Geocoding and visualizing address information with R

When dealing with online data, we frequently encounter information about locations. In this post, I will be showing you how to transform this information into geographical coordinates using R programming language.

By Carlos A. Toruño P.

December 21, 2022