I’ve been doing a fair bit of coding in recent weeks and I thought I’d better write a few details down before I forget about them.
As previously noted, I’ve been gathering together various historical data sets for a project at the National Museum of Australia. One resource that I was keen on including was the [...]
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For a project that I’m working on at the National Museum of Australia, I’ve started collecting various sources of date-identified data. Most recently I had a go at extracting historical population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The data can all be downloaded as .xls files, but they’re not simple, flat spreadsheets – they’re data [...]
