These are examples of how the Quartz things team has done certain tasks to execute our stories. There is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to do most of the things we do. We are also not necassarily the best providers of instructions for certain tasks, so some of our recipes may link out to others'.
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How to do basic data tasks
- In Python
- In R
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Scraping data from a website
- Dynamic
- Static
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Using satellite imagery
Contributing to the cookbook can take many forms. You can:
- Link to a good tutorial
- Link to another repo
- Write a tutorial as a Markdown file
- Provide examples and snippets in a notebook file
For links, simply add the link under a heading above with the title of the tutorial and the language it uses (if any)
For tutorials in markdown and examples in notebooks commit them to the cookbook-examples folder. Choose descriptive file names such as making-a-chropleth-map_javascript.ipynb or scraping-a-dynamic-website_python.ipynb if it's a markdown file inside of a folder name the file Readme.md so that Github displays it by default.