From: arokem <arokem@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 03:16:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Start implementing plotting from the Harry Potter wikipedia data-set.
X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/matplotlib-cdsw/commitdiff_plain/224a19e5f73433a38828d6bd8a655fce7c220058?hp=d4f04c7ca4cc5f8a066886fc8c4d18cbc12ea3cf

Start implementing plotting from the Harry Potter wikipedia data-set.
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diff --git a/001-hello-plot.py b/001-hello-plot.py
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+++ b/001-hello-plot.py
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+""" 
+
+hello_plot.py
+
+A first plot with matplotlib
+
+"""
+
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
+figure = plt.figure()
+axis = figure.add_subplot(111)
+plt.plot([1,2,3], [1,2,3])
+plt.show()
diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Using this dataset requires that you first download the following dataset:
 
-http://communitydata.cc/~mako/wikipedia_bios.csv
-
+http://communitydata.cc/~mako/hp_wiki.tsv
diff --git a/load_hp_data.py b/load_hp_data.py
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+""" load_hp_data.py 
+
+A module for loading data from the Harry Potter wikipedia data set
+
+""" 
+import csv
+from datetime import datetime
+
+f = open('hp_wiki.tsv', 'r')
+reader = csv.DictReader(f, delimiter='\t')
+
+columns = {}
+for fieldname in reader.fieldnames:
+	columns[fieldname] = []
+
+
+rows = []
+for row in reader:
+	# Convert timestamp from a string to a date:
+	row['timestamp'] = datetime.strptime(row['timestamp'], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+	rows.append(row)
+	for fieldname, value in row.items():
+		columns[fieldname].append(value)
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