Analysing Francis Bacon: Part 2 – First Steps
“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…
The Data Revolution in Sustainable Development
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…
Analysing Francis Bacon: Part 1 – An Ambitious Goal
“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…
Defining Big Data with Big Vs
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…
The 4 Pillars of OOP
Object oriented programming (OOP) is a framework used in programming languages, such as Java and python, that is based on the concept of “objects”. The OOP framework is characterised by 4 features that are often referred to as “pillars” to emphasise their importance: Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance and Polymorphism. Encapsulation Encapsulation describes the act of organising…
How Big Data is helping environmental conservation
The amount of available environmental data has exploded in past five years thanks to improvements in data collection and big data. By combining seemingly disparate datasets, the accuracy of the global environmental image has improved and has given scientists new insights into how best to conserve the environment. Satellites have been an integral driver of…
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