Joshua Kunst jbkunst

Iowa Liquor Sales dataset via Socrata/data.iowa.gov

(preliminary exploration)

The state of Iowa has released an 800MB+ dataset of more than 3 million rows showing weekly liquor sales, broken down by liquor category, vendor, and product name, e.g. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKIES, Jim Beam Brands, Maker's Mark

This dataset contains the spirits purchase information of Iowa Class “E” liquor licensees by product and date of purchase from January 1, 2014 to current. The dataset can be used to analyze total spirits sales in Iowa of individual products at the store level.

You can view the dataset via Socrata

If you were to give recommendations to your "little brother/sister" on things that they need to do to become a data scientist, what would those things be?

I think the "Data Science Venn Diagram" (http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram) is a great place to start. You need three things to be a good data scientist:

Statistical knowledge
Programming/hacking skills
Domain expertise

Statistical knowledge

d3 cloud example

An example of how to animate a d3-cloud word cloud.

Based on https://github.com/jasondavies/d3-cloud/blob/master/examples/simple.html.


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