Mapping the Iraq War with Power BI

Mapping the Iraq War with Power BI

by Chris Aragao Years ago, I found political science papers that referenced “significant activity” (SigAct) data. SigActs can be thought of as a record of notable events that occurred while service members were deployed overseas. There are many categories...

Calling USASpending.Gov From #PowerQuery

This week I was asked several times about connecting to the USASpending.gov API. It can be done with a little help with testing from Postman. Once you figure out which endpoint you want to query, you need to figure out: Whether it is a GET or POST request If you need...

#PBICoreVisuals: Coast Guard Casualty Response Report

A long time ago I found some data on data.gov that detailed historical Coast Guard data. It had a lot of information ranging from pollution data to casualty information. Over time I prepped the data as best as I could, but I wasn’t sure what to actually do with...
New Viz: Women’s Army Corps WWII Survey

New Viz: Women’s Army Corps WWII Survey

As a follow up to the Survey 32 dashboard I did, I was fascinated with the survey project as a whole conducted by Dr. Edward Gitre and his team, so I decided to take a crack at another survey from the website. Survey 194 was titled “Attitudes of Enlisted WAC...
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