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Oregon Health Cartogram – Chronic Cardiac Diseases by County
This is my first chance to try out the Oregon cartogram I’ve been developing with some actual data. (Update Nov 28: Added disclaimer about population health veracity. This graph really is based on the OHA documents, but it has not … Continue reading
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Reading Tufte
Finished up the first three volumes from Edward Tufte on data information and visualization. While I read a bit a few years ago, and follow data viz on Twitter and the web, it was good to sit down and go … Continue reading
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SQL Fundamentals
Like last week’s effort with Regular Expressions, I’ve been piecing together SQL queries for some time now and decided to work through a lite tutorial. I noticed the website with the Regular Expressions tutorial also offered SQL; so I jumped … Continue reading
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Regular Expressions
To clean up data for analysis, I’ve had to dip my toes into regular expressions. For example, writing a line of instructions that can separate first and last names and removing middle ones from a list of people. To do … Continue reading
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Cartogram of Oregon Counties
The state of Oregon’s Open Data Portal provides access and assistance to a whole number of datasets and charts. I’ve been interested in looking at the similarities and differences between counties and locations (mostly in healthcare). I’ve done a few … Continue reading
