This repository is a collection of my projects from dataquest.io. These projects contain comments showing my thought process as I progressed through them.
Project 1: Exploring U.S. Births
Use of python to explore and analyse birth rates in the U.S.
Project 2: Exploring Gun Deaths in the US
Use of python to explore and analyse the gun deaths in the U.S.
Project 3: Analysing Thanksgiving Dinner
Use of the pandas library to explore and analyse data on Thanksgiving dinner in the US for 2015.
Project 4: Exploring eBay Car Sales Data
Use of pandas library to work with a dataset of used cars from a German eBay website. Project focused on the cleaning of the dataset through renaming of columns, removal of nonessential data and the translation of German words to their English counterparts.
Project 5: Visualising Earnings Based on College Majors
Use of pandas library to explore the dataset of recent graduates followed by the use of matplotlib to visualise the data and practice some of the data visualisation tools on offer.
Use of matplotlib to explore gender gap in college degrees using effective data visualisation. This project is focused primarily on the aesthetics of the plots.
Project 7: Analyzing NYC High School Data
Use of pandas library in the combination of various datasets into a single, clean pandas dataframe. Followed by the exploration and analysis of this new dataframe.
PROJECT 8 : Star Wars Survey
This project is focused primarily on the cleaning of data to enable thte data set to be used in analysis.
Project 9 : Working with Data Downloads
This project is focused around the manipulation of files using the command line.
Project 10 : Transforming Data with Python
The focus of this project is to write scripts that import functions from other python files and then run them on the command line.
This project involved the use of SQLite to explore, analyse and visualise the data from the CIA World Factbook.