Hope you guys enjoyed the snow. ❄️ This Wednesday we talked about Shiny. We discussed why we use R Shiny and how to create a Shiny application. Thank you to all who showed up! Hoping to see you next Wednesday 02/15/2017 10:00-11:00 at DSSC. The R Open Lab for next week will be shorter than usual because we […]
Python Open Labs – Revisiting Session 1
Hi Welcome back to Python Open Labs at DSSC (Lehman Library, SIPA). This semester we will be moving ahead with our weekly lecture-cum-practise open labs on Python so do join us on Fridays every week from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM. In the first session for Spring 2017 semester we revisited some of the concepts […]
Map Club — WORKSHOP (Part II) — Introduction to Mapping in D3.js
In its final session of the semester, Map Club embarked upon the second half of a two-part workshop focused on D3.js, a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. This time, participants focused on learning how to render a simple SVG map in the browser, which could serve as the basis for visualizing custom values. Beginning with a CSV […]
Python Open Labs – Session 9
Hi Everyone Hope you all had a great thanksgiving ! Today we had the last session of Python Open Labs for Fall 2016 at the DSSC. We will be continuing with the same through the next semester, so do watch this space for further announcements on schedule or free feel to shoot me a mail. […]
R Open Lab – Writing Loops
The topic for today is writing loops in R. Looping is equivalent to iterating or just replicating instructions. By letting the computer take over the repetitive work, we make our life much easier. We also talked a bit about how to avoid writing loops and make our code more efficient. Thank you to everyone who […]
Map Club — WORKSHOP (Part I) — D3.js
In its second to last session, Map Club took on the first part of a guided introduction to D3.js. D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. This workshop, focusing on the general setup and visualization capabilities of the library, led participants through the basics of SVG, data types, and generating simple shapes from custom arrays. […]
R Open Lab – dplyr package
This Wednesday we talked about how to use the dplyr package in R. The dplyr package makes data manipulation faster, easier and more straightforward. We covered the syntax and functions of the package, and tried it out on our Walmart Store Sales dataset. We also briefly introduced R Notebook and R presentation. R open lab […]
Map Club — Cartogram Hexmaps with Tilegrams
The latest session of Map Club took a data journalism bent: last Friday, we focused on creating cartogram hexmaps with Tilegrams, a generator by data visualization studio Pitch Interactive. The tool enables users to quickly create proportionate hex-based maps of the United States using custom or built-in data, and export generated maps to both SVG and topojson. Tilegrams provides […]
Python Open Labs – Session 7
Strings form an important data type in any programming language, especially involving text, processing files such as log files, articles etc. Python provides a string as a built-in data type supported with strong library functions that we looked at in today’s session. The course material for the same can be accessed on: https://goo.gl/YP0c2E Next week we […]
Map Club — WORKSHOP — Introduction to QGIS
Last Friday, Map Club embarked upon its second workshop of the semester. This time, we focused on QGIS, a free and open source geographic information system that offers powerful tools for data editing, viewing, and analysis. Participants learned how to import shapefiles into the interface, explore data using the attribute table, and visualize land use in Manhattan with public building footprint data. From […]