Getting structured address components (Street name, street number, street direction, city, state/province, etc.) from unstructured text examples of using ez_address_parser and usaddress packages Use-case: Let’s say we want to extract consistent and structured address information from raw text or from… Read More »Parsing Address strings in Python: structure address text data in python
– cross reference and apply shapefile polygons on coordinates in data – Python/GIS | Geopandas & shapley Use-case: Applying reverse-geocoding free of charge using an appropriate shapefile (including polygons data) in Python. Let’s say you have some geographical coordinates in… Read More »Reverse Geocoding: Find city names from latitude and longitude coordinates
Use-case: I want to automate the scraping and storing results from google search engine based on a set of keywords and queries using Python. One possible use-case for this scraping could be a need for finding news or contextual information… Read More »Scraping google search results based on query keywords in Python
This tutorial shows how to visualize an interactive map in python. We visualize a map of polyline or a route or road map in python. We use an example of transit or bus route map to visualize in this blog.… Read More »How-to: Geographical visualization of a route or road path such as bus transits
Use-case: I wanted to create a report on a data using r markdown, and my next goal was providing simple and interactive data table for summary stats or contextual information around data. Hence, I came accross this R package, called… Read More »Creating beautiful, interactive, simple and elegant data tables using kable in R
– simple code win in Python GIS tutorial Use-case: Sort a tabular data based on one or multiple columns using a simple and accessible python method. Specially useful for less technical background who may deal with a spreadsheet in excel… Read More »Sorting spreadsheets based on one or multiple columns – quick solution for slow loading sheets in excel or google sheets
Simple code project in Python GIS tutorial Use-Case: I wanted to create consistency and customization in how geographical units such as city is defined in my data. I have a set of observation with their address coordinates within different cities… Read More »How to determine if a coordinate locates within any distance from a reference point such as center of city – Python
– efficient & ready-to-execute for slow loading sheets in Pyhton / Google Colab Goal of this tutorial: efficient and simple removal of duplicates from spreadsheet data! In this tutorial and video, I show you how to remove duplicates such as in this data. Fast and actionable. Specially for bigger data where loading… Read More »Remove Duplicates from a spreadsheet based on all or subset of columns | Google sheets/Excel | Python/Colab | Data Solution for beginners
Using pacman package in R for best practice r code script in collaboration and portability Use pacman library as shown in the first block to install and load any list of library packages you use. you can copy and use… Read More »Start all your R code with automatically install if needed and load your required package libraries
Code available to download. A tutorial for beginners on how to start r coding scripts, installing R packages, and interactive chart visualization examples, Code available to download. Begin all your R scripts with this snippet! Automatically installing and load library… Read More »How to start r coding: packages installation in R, and an interactive chart example