Word clouds are great. Everyone loves a good colourful word cloud. Me too. To make one of those with our instagramming Czech politicians’ data, we needed to do some data prep.
Text Analysis with Pandas
Czech Politicians on Instagram
There are more than a hundred million posts uploaded every single day on Instagram. More than 4 billion likes a day by half a billion users. Fifty nine percent of internet users between the age of 18 and 29 have an active Instagram account. More than 70% of teenagers use Instagram. Even if it dies out like MySpace one day, right now Instagram is definitely one of the best online places where to target young audience. [Sources: Age Distribution, Teens]
Instagram Scraping with Python
When writing an article about Czech political influencers, I came across some pretty interesting numbers. I was honestly surprised I haven’t found any data analysis covering this so I decided to do it myself (with lots of Jiri‘s help – he’s my data guru and coding mentor 🙂 ). Continue reading “Instagram Scraping with Python”
Randomly Generated Poetry in Python
I love import random. It’s the only uncertainty I really enjoy in my life. Along with a single line for loop it’s one of the things I’ve kind of mastered (ehm) when learning Python. Also, combining technology and language is fun! Yes, it’s just a few lines of very novice code but I love it anyway. 🙂 Continue reading “Randomly Generated Poetry in Python”
How to make Tableau work with WordPress
When finishing my Digital Academy Project, I spent too much time figuring out how to make Tableau visualisations work with WordPress. It should have been be easy – Tableau gives you an Embed Code that should work smoothly. Well, it doesn’t.