Cooking with data provides fast and simple ways to analyze and visualize data through easy-to-use tools. It allows importing large datasets into spreadsheets in under two minutes for analysis and to create charts and graphs. Case studies show how tools can scrape over 4,600 records in 90 seconds from websites and import transportation safety data into documents for further exploration.
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Kevin Anderson
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Editor's Notes
Welcome to my data cooking show. We’re going to serve up a starter of simple charts and graphs, moving on to the main of a chunky bit of raw data and finish with a sweet melange of fatal plane crash data. Like a cooking show, occasionally I will show you most of the steps but to do this in 10 minutes, I might occasionally pull something out of the oven and say, here is one that I made before. I am leaving out two really important steps. Finding the data and tidying it up – cleaning it.
An example from Flight Global’sDEWLine blog.
Let’s start with a current example: The US elections.