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Retrieve and process Environment Canada hydrometric and climate data using Python

Leave a Comment / Environmental science, Python

Recently needed to get flow and level data for a watercourse hydrological station as well as regional precipitation data for relevant location(s) upstream within the watershed of the station. The objective was to combine two decades of watercourse flow and level with regional watershed precipitation data into a single set of analysis and reporting. Environment […]

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Plotly Express Python remove legend title

Leave a Comment / Plotly, Python

Plotly.py 4.5, Plotly Express no longer puts the = in trace names, because legends support titles (source). Prior to Plotly.py 4.5, I had used this ‘hover_data’ trick to remove the ‘=’ from the legend trace names. hover_data=[‘gain_loss’]).for_each_trace(lambda t: t.update(name=t.name.split(“=”)[0]) However now with Plotly.py 4.5, I want to remove the legend title. The new trick to

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Scraping public health web page using Python, BeautifulSoup4, Requests and Pandas

Leave a Comment / Amazon Web Services (AWS), BeautifulSoup, Python

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Canada I wanted to get COVID-19 confirmed cases counts data for the city of Montreal. The data I wanted was made freely available by the Quebec Government’s Health Montreal website in a tabular format that was updated regularly.  EDIT: Health Montreal stopped publishing data so the link no longer

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Choropleth map of Canada COVID-19 cases by health region using Leaflet and D3.js

Leave a Comment / D3.js, Geocoding, Javascript, Python

During the early days of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, I wanted to get better understanding of the geographical distribution of COVID-19 cases across Canada. At the time, government or news agencies were only mapping case counts by province. However Canadian provinces are so big compared to population centers that it doesn’t accurately reflect

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