Note : I know I am too late for the competition, and unfortunately I have no excuse.
I will publish the blog anyway; in case some tips presented here could be useful for someone….I’ll just try to buy the T-shirt on Ebay afterwards 😉
This blog is meant as a tutorial / demonstration : nothing incredible, but all main steps are described, so that you can reproduce everything (all in Lumira except the last step in Predictive Analysis).
Also I wanted to highlight how easily you can create meaningful analysis with a very simple Dataset.
After some research, I found a very nice blog by Jordan Schermerhorn, with a free GoT data set, mainly extracted from Wikis. Jordan has already done some very interesting analysis of the data, so the goal was to find new ways to use the existing dataset.
Please go to the original blog to have more information:
http://jordanschermer.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/valar-morghulis/
So here is a sample of the data you can download (the file contains 366 characters): This blog will try to give you all the steps, so if you download the original file, you can use this as a tutorial
(The “affiliation” dimension is a regrouping of characters, similar to an extended family. )
Now let’s start (and if you have not read/seen GoT, beware as this blog may contain Spoilers!)
Step 1 : data preparation
Before After
Step 2 : Visualize
I will just highlight some Tips about this part.
Not bad, but the Age Groups are not sorted in the right sequence…..and I did not find a way to force the display order of the values (Child -> Teen -> Young Adult…)
So I just went back to the Prepare Room, selected the Age Groups, and did a “replace” for each value: Child becomes 1Child, Teen becomes 2Teen….
It took me less than 1 minute. Went back to the Visualize Room, and now: I can see that Starks are indeed much younger than Lannisters
(SPOILER: maybe because they often die young…)
And the result is quite interesting : we have seen just before that the Death Rate seemed linked to the Age as expected..... but what we see here is that in fact the main factor for Death is the family, the age being only the second factor !
Now it would be interesting to go back and analyze this, but I’ll let you continue: your turn !
And remember: “Winter Is Coming” !
Eric
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