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hughdbrown / data-denver-drivers.md
Created August 31, 2015 15:06
Denver dreivers

Denver drivers

Description

Since arriving in Denver, I have noticed that Denver drivers do a whole range of semi-dangerous things on the road:

  • Changing lane with insufficient space
  • Lefthand turns in front of oncoming traffic
  • Running orange/red lights
  • Driving through totally red lights
  • Passing on the right on the highway
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hughdbrown / data-real-estate-factors.md
Last active August 31, 2015 15:15
Factors in real estate prices

Real estate factors

Description

Real estate prices within an area can be predicted from past sales in an area with the addition of various factors:

  • number of bedrooms
  • number of bathrooms
  • square footage of house
  • square footage of lot

In addition, we might speculate that a couple of other factors that are not commonly recorded at at play:

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hughdbrown / data-movie-factors.md
Created August 31, 2015 15:18
Factors in movie revenue

Movie factors

Description

Movies are released and have varying levels of financial success. Can we figure out how successful a film will be by assessing its factors before its release?

Data sources

  • IMDB for movie particulars (genre, actors, director, etc.)
  • movie revenue source?
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hughdbrown / data-bitly.md
Last active September 1, 2015 10:42
Analysis of bit.ly data

Bit.ly data

Description

GermanWings crash/suicide news story spreads over bit.ly links.

Data source

  • bit.ly
  • twitter

Display style

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hughdbrown / data-chronic-kidney-disease.md
Last active August 31, 2015 17:35
Chronic kidney disease predictor

Chronic kidney disease

Description

Data source

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hughdbrown / how-to-put-your-project-online.md
Last active August 31, 2015 16:06
Getting your project online

How to put your project online

This is a short description of the infrastructure you need to set up to get your project reachable on the web.

Github hosting

AWS hosting

Heroku hosting

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hughdbrown / data-wikipedia.md
Created August 31, 2015 17:26
Data project in wikipedia

Wikipedia data

Description

I like wikipedia. There must be some sort of project I could do with this data.

Data source

  • Wikipedia There are accessible dumps of wikipedia data.
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hughdbrown / data-UN-voting-blocs.md
Created August 31, 2015 17:31
UN global warming voting blocs

UN global warming voting blocs

Description

I was listening on NPR today and heard that within the UN, there are about a dozen different blocs that vote together on global warming issues:

  • Switzerland alone
  • Developed countries
  • European group
  • "77 countries plus China" ... which is actually 134 countries
  • Various island nations most affected
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hughdbrown / data-job-recommender.md
Created August 31, 2015 22:59
Job recommender that bootstraps from list of job postings

Job recommender

Description

So often, job sites give candidates job listings that are far off topic. The job title is often not applicable for the candidate, and less often, the location does not match the cadidate's location.

Question

Can we build a better system for users by applying a recommender system to existing public listings?

Data source

  • glassdoor.com API
  • indeed.com web scraping
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hughdbrown / data-homeaway.md
Created August 31, 2015 23:04
Homeaway data

Homeaway data

Description

Homeaway has data on vacation rentals. The data is not nearly so worked over as AirBNB data. Possibly there is something interesting in there to disover.

Data source

  • Homeaway API access The main problem with the project is that the Homeaway API is pretty opaque. I can't figure out how to get a data dump. Also, the API requires registration and advance permission.