cso_energy

The aim of this repository is to simplify working work with CSO (Ireland's Central Statistics Office) energy-related statistics data

... with the help of the open source Python software prefect and pandas

... via:

• A Jupyter Notebook sandbox environment
• A cso_energy Python library

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Benefits

Sandbox:

• It's free
• It's fast ... can be run on the cloud via Google Collab
• It downloads the dataset directly

cso_energy library:

• It can be imported by other projects to automate the wrangling of CSO data

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This repository was setup by the codema-dev team as part of the SEAI RD&D funded Dublin Region Energy Masterplan Project

   

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Installation

To setup the cso_energy sandbox:

• Google Collab:

  • Click the Google Collab badge & open sandbox.ipynb:

    

  • Mount your Google Drive to your Google Collab instance & refresh your filetree

    

  • Copy the path to your Google Drive data folder and paste it into the appropriate string

    

  • For more information see External data: Local Files, Drive, Sheets, and Cloud Storage

• Local:

  • Unzip the dataset
  • Clone this repository locally via git clone https://github.com/codema-dev/cso_energy
  • Launch Jupyter Notebook and open the relevant sandbox file in the notebooks folder