Tag: Python

  • Which country is the best? Dealing with ranking data

    Which country is the best? Dealing with ranking data

    Who does not dream about living in the best country of the globe? But what counts the best? There are various factors, along which countries can be compared. Countries are ranked on the basis of their GDP, the well-being of their citizens, the level of their inhabitants’ freedom and on many more. Our research aims to come up with a top list of the countries, which amalgamates more aspects of ranking. This goal is achieved with rank aggregation.

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  • Getting started with SQL

    Getting started with SQL

    SQL and databases are among the most needed data science skills. According to a recent study, SQL is the third most demanded skill right afrer Python and R. Suprisingly a beginner programmer can happily live without a database for a long time. However, at some point the aspiring data scientist will grow out the world of csvs and plain text files. Using databases becomes handy, when someone starts building Rest APIs or one has to connect to a remote SQL server full of gigabytes of valuable data. Here are our tips to get started with SQL and how to use it in the Pythonic way.

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  • Demographic changes of Hungary between 1986 and 2018

    Demographic changes of Hungary between 1986 and 2018

    The population of Hungary has been decreasing since the 1980s. How does this change affect the rural and urban areas? What is the ratio of males and females in the municipalities of Hungary? Our project aims to answer these and similar questions by illustrating tendencies of the population change regarding each municipality of the country, city size, and sex.

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