Data Science Bookcamp

12 Case study 3 solution

This section covers

• Extracting and visualizing locations
• Cleaning data
• Clustering locations

Our goal is to extract locations from disease-related headlines to uncover the largest active epidemics within and outside of the United States. We will do as follows:

1. Load the data.

2. Extract locations from the text using regular expressions and the GeoNamesCache library.

3. Check the location matches for errors.

4. Cluster the locations based on geographic distance.

5. Visualize the clusters on a map, and remove any errors.

6. Output representative locations from the largest clusters to draw interesting conclusions.

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