The most-read post of all time on our blog is Which country is the best? Dealing with ranking data. The data took on a new look with bump charts.
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Book Review: The Art of Clean Code by Christian Mayer
No matter your level of software development skills, this book is a great source to learn about the basic principles of clean code and best practices to get better at coding. Christian Mayer distills a vast amount of knowledge for you in his book on the subtle art of developing software.
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How to extract data from PDF files
PDF has often been used for publishing valuable data. Sometimes it is a piece of cake to extract the human-readable data and convert it into csv, excel or put it into a database. Sometimes PDF is used to publish data in a hard-to-process format, i.e. using embedded images. The open-source ecosystem provides fantastic tools to get data out of PDF files.
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The urban geography of inequalities
A few weeks ago we had a heatwave and we were thinking if the hotter a place the poorer it is. We could collect data to test our hypothesis thanks to the recent advances in open data and scraping technologies.
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Graph Neural Networks in PyTorch Geometric
Join us to learn more about graph neural networks and PyTorch Geometric on 5th May! The online event is free and open to everyone.
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