This past week, I’ve been working on a function in Python that merges the two different datasets (WRA and FAR) so as to simplify the process of querying the data.
The reason for merging the data was to find a simpler alternative to the previous function for searching developed by Densho which involved if/else for loops to pull data from each dataset.
Now, one can search the data for a particular person and recover all of the available information about that person in a simple query. After the merge, the data output looks something like this when formulated as a list:
In addition to this, I’ve also played with some basic visualizations using Python to display some of the data in pie charts. I’m hoping to wrap up the last week working on more visualizations and functions for querying data.
Jamillah, Did the two datasets have the same structure? If not, did you have an issues with that?