Samarth Bhaskar's starred repositories
ML_for_Hackers
Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers"
data_hacks
Command line utilities for data analysis
BanditsBook
Code for my book on Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms
openstates-scrapers
source for Open States scrapers
Vertica-Hadoop-Connector
Vertica Hadoop Connector
look-at-cook
Explore Cook County's budget from 1993 to 2017 and learn how the money is being spent.
crime-in-chicago
A data visualization that lets you explore crime trends in Chicago's 50 wards. Built using open crime report data from the Chicago Police Department.
hows-business
A data-driven look at Chicago's economy, built with open data.
chicago-lobbyists-web
An open data, open government, and open source project intended to improve the transparency of interactions between the City of Chicago, lobbyists and their clients.
cps-tiers
In Chicago, a student's chance of getting into the city's top, selective schools depends on where he or she lives. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) places every part of the city into one of four socio-economic "tiers" and requires selective schools to reserve the same number of spots for the students from each tier. This tool helps you find what CPS tier you are in.
metra-service-changes
Metra's 2012 proposed service changes
clearstreets-web-old
The City of Chicago launched Plow Tracker, an app that tracks the city's snow plows in real time. This app uses the same data. By knowing where the plows are, we've figured which streets have been plowed.
tweetstreamwrapper
Wrapper for python tweetstream library; handles connection failures, makes it easier to put tweets in mongo / redis / etc. Definitely under construction.