Cleaning + Preparing Minnesota Lakes Data

Author(s): Adam Ross Nelson

Originally published on Towards AI.

How to tidy up Wikipedia’s list of Minnesota’s lakes

While driving the other day I saw a pretty view of the lake in my hometown. It is known as Lake Menomin. I took a photo for you to enjoy here.

Image Credit: Author’s photo of downtown Menomonie, WI across Lake Menomin.

Then it occurred to me that a set of data that consisted of all lakes in Wisconsin plus the lake characteristics might be fun for a clustering tutorial. After diligently searching, I found no such set of data.

But our happy neighbor to the west of Wisconsin is Minnesota. Minnesota is fabled to have 10,000 lakes. Spoiler alert, this article debunks… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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