Previously we looked at visual data verification using Python and Pandas. Here we shall extend this to look at geospatial data verification of the earlier Oklahoma Injection Well Dataset. Gesopatial data can be managed and plotted using Geopandas – a geospatial extension to Pandas. This comes with some basic basemap data, but you will probably ...
We have looked at reading data into Python, but have ignored the issue of character encoding. In English speaking countries we often assume a text file or string is simple ASCII. More often than not, the file is actually a Unicode file. With Python 2, ignoring this issue would not usually result in any problems ...
Python is a popular tool for data manipulation and processing. In this first post about Python data manipulation and input, we look at a number of different ways to get your data files loaded into Python. Structured non-tabular data Structured non-tabular data typically consists of data records with fields which are not always present, in ...
Caliper have just released a data pack of US healthcare providers as a free download for Maptitude and TransCAD. This data pack includes hospitals, health clinics, physicians, other providers (pharmacists, nurses, optometrists, etc), and other features (pharmacies, dental practices, etc). If you really care about taking care of your health, you have to see the ...
