Rui Barros

Published at Renascença
on June 21st, 2018

Popular Saints’ Festivals in Portugal

After scraping a database of all local holidays in all Portuguese municipalities, I’ve found out that 20% of these holidays are in honor of these three saints. According to the data, Saint John the Baptist is probably the most popular one, since is the one with more local holidays in his honor.

What was initially a newsroom discussion became a small newsapp that allowed people to explore the data.

Articles

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Raul Santos

Technologies Used

JavaScript, R, Rvest, HTML, CSS

Topics

Religion, Saints