Ben Nour

  • Which Sydney LGAs have the lowest and highest unemployment rates?

    The Australian government's Jobs and Skills Australia has an insightful dataset I recently came across - quarterly Small Area Labour Markets (SALM) estimates of unemployment and the unemployment rate, broken out by local government area …

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  • Using Spotify's Web API to analyse my Favourite Rock playlist

    Since 2015 I've been adding my most-liked rock songs to the aptly named playlist Favourite Rock.

    I thought it'd be fun to use content metadata from Spotify's Web API to learn more about my …

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  • Officially named places of First Nations origin in NSW, Australia

    Recently I was …

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  • Introducing Archer API

    Introducing Archer API, a REST API based on one of my favourite shows, the adult animated spy comedy Archer.

    Archer API provides JSON data about Archer's episodes, charactes and quotes.

    For example, to get …

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  • How I created a Twitter bot that posts about science fiction books

    As an avid reader I thought it would be cool to combine my love of literature and data to create a Twitter bot that posts about sci-fi books :

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    Specifically …

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  • Where are Australia's existing/proposed oil and gas pipelines located?

    Recently I was …

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