“All painting is an accident. But it’s also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.” -Francis Bacon Initial Data Exploration The first part of any data analysis project is data collection. In order to capture Francis Bacon’s 500+ paintings to start my analysis, I needed to…

In 2015, all UN Member States agreed on a 15-year plan to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These were 17 targets aimed at tackling urgent global issues in four key areas: climate change, poverty, human rights and gender inequality. In order to reach these goals by 2030, the United Nations also recognised the need…

“I believe in deeply ordered chaos.“ -Francis Bacon I have had an idea forming in my mind for about a year now. The first spark came after playing with random numbers using the programming language Python- perhaps there was a way I could use these random numbers to ‘paint’? The first artist that sprang to…

If someone were to define a dataset of x amount of bytes and called it ‘Big Data’, the term would become obsolete within months. Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that datasets are in turn getting larger and larger. We would have to start using comparative adjectives such as ‘Bigger Data’ and ‘Larger…