Waffle house api explorer

Alex Pawlowski

2020-04-02

KnoxPy

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1967 locations across the U.S. (mostly in the South)
FEMA revealed in early 2010s that their disaster mobilization used the Waffle House Index as a guide
- Green - Waffle House serving full menu, open (most usually 24/7, 365)
- Yellow - Waffle House serving limited menu
- Red - Waffle House closed

You probably already know about pandas if you do data manipulation in python
Highly recommend revisiting their docs! A beautiful change coinciding with v1.0!
- 0.25 to 1.0 is not a monumental shift, mostly a better reflection that pandas is pretty stable
- one of the best changes:
  - if you have a missing value in a column of integers when reading in to pandas, the column no longer gets cast to a float!!
- more info:

Powerful tool in python that wraps a lot of lower level python libraries to quickly work with data that has a spatial component, think Pandas + a column for geometry
Not only can do you data joins, but you can also do geographical transformations (thanks to the underlying libraries), that can make it a useful part of your GIS stack
I won't cover the bigger geography tools, for a better dive with an actual geographer, check out KnoxData's talk with Dr. Paulo Raposo from Sept 2018 ->
docs: https://geopandas.org/