Can Data Science Find Bigfoot?
<p>Watching Bigfoot researchers chasing — sometimes quite literally — circumstantial evidence, noises, and half-glimpsed shadows through the forest at night certainly makes for some great TV.</p>
<p>I love killing time with a bit of TV, and a show called “Expedition Bigfoot” has kept me entertained on many a lunch break. However, this show isn’t the run-of the-mill cryptid documentary as it claims to use a “data algorithm” to first identify a target search zone before sending in human researchers to track down the hairy subject.</p>
<p>Obviously my ears pick up when I hear something like this, and short of packing an overnight bag, I start to wonder what I can do to help the search. So here we go, “helping”!</p>
<p>While this is going to be quite a lighthearted article, I’m going to take a look at some data, covering:</p>
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<li>Exploratory data analysis (EDA) with Pandas Profiling</li>
<li>Exploratory data analysis the old-fashioned way</li>
<li>Clustering with OPTICS</li>
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<h1>The data</h1>
<p>The data comes from Timothy Renner¹, who in turn sourced the observations from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization².</p>
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