Computational and Data Journalism @ Cardiff –

Empty Properties: simple choropleth maps with leaflet.js

We’re still working on looking at empty properties around Wales, and so while we wait for the FOI request results to come in, I thought it would be interesting to do a bit of basic mapping. Normally, if I want to create a choropleth I reach straight for d3 and my collection of topojson, but […]

Visualising data – first try to get the information #foia

We’re currently looking at how many empty properties there are across Wales. The students and staff are in the process of using the Freedom of Information act to get data sets as part of our sessions around data journalism and visualising data. (Martin recently did a post looking at different technologies for wrangling the data […]

Updating Empty Properties: Agate vs Pandas

In the lab session this week we looked again at the Freedom of Information act and considered a request to Cardiff Council for the list of empty properties in Cardiff. Last year we did a very similar session, but this year I carried out the simple data analysis slightly differently.