cook county property tax data -- web scraping to plots example, possible comparison

[eddelbuettel]

A while back I came across Tanya Schlusser's rather nice

• blog post
• Python notebook

about property taxes in Cook County. (Bonus is that her examples are one minor municaplity over from my home one on the near western 'burbs.) I tried to dress that up somewhat in R so that it could serve as a possible basis for student projects in the U of I class I teach but nobody ended up taking it. My repo is here.

I still think there would be great value in something simple-enough-yet-not-too-simple to show parallel approaches side by side: python with pandas, python without pandas, r using base, r using tidy tools, r using data.table, ... so that people could run / modify whichever ones they'd prefer.

This could be a starting point for that, or just be a neat exploration into local data.

[emilyriederer]

Nice! I love the idea of creating a 'Rosetta stone' of a full analysis completed in many different languages / dialects. What do you think would be the best final format for that? (e.g. GitHub repo? web app to make compariosn of syntax easier? something else?)

[eddelbuettel]

Thanks. As for 'best presentation format', I have no good idea either. Side-by-side is nice, but unwieldy with more than two. Maybe a selection from several options to pick two displayed ones?

[maurolepore]

I would love to have such reference as a guideline to safely remove a tidy package when needed, so my selfish vote would be to focus on tidy versus base and on patterns that are common in the tidyverse (e.g.https://gist.github.com/hadley/c430501804349d382ce90754936ab8ec)

[eddelbuettel]

Have you seen this and this ?

[zaynaib]

It reminds of those cheat sheets from RStudio base R

[zaynaib]

@eddelbuettel It might be worth your while if you check out Rosetta Code It's a website that shows how to solve algorithms using different languages. R and Python some of the languages that are included. This could be a base for your project.