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Data Analysis

Creating an ‘Article Meta Data’ Database – Phase 2: Saving Data Locally

14th April 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

Previously we looked at getting some interesting pieces of information from an article. This included data such as: Article Title Article Publish date Text of the article Keywords in the …

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Data Analysis

Creating an ‘Article Meta Data’ Database – Phase 1: The Newspaper package

29th March 2018 M Smith1 Comment

Newspaper A python package for article scraping and curation The newspaper package for python makes it extremely easy to download article content. Not only that, it has built in functionality …

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Finance

If you can – a blueprint for financial security

10th March 201810th March 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

“If you can” is a pamphlet written by William J. Bernstein on How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly. For those interested in learning more about how to be financially secure …

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cybersecurity

Backing up files on Linux with rsync

7th March 20187th March 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

For a couple of years now I have been using Linux on my computer at home. Having bounced around a few distros I have settled on Linux Mint, and it …

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Personal Development

Bicycle University

28th February 201828th February 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

I ride my bicycle to almost everywhere I need to go. In (almost) any weather and as long as my bike is functional, riding is my main form of transport. …

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Python

Gotta catch ’em all

26th February 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

Recently I found myself needing to download images of all Pokemon for a personal project. And not wanting to download them all by hand I turned to python to help …

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cybersecurity

How I backup this website

25th November 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

Backups are an important part of digital security and should be considered for both personal computers phones etc and web applications like this one. Personally I hadn’t considered backup options …

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Python

Scheduling cron jobs with python in virtual environments

2nd November 2017 M Smith9 Comments

Recently I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out how to set up a cron job to run a python script I had recently created. Before you snicker …

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cybersecurity

Getting started with Bitcoin

24th October 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

***Disclaimer – this is not financial advice *** So you’ve decided to buy some Bitcoin but don’t know where to start. This quick guide will get you up and running …

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Data Analysis

RStudio in the cloud

16th October 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

With the recent release of the RStudio v1.1 it’s an opportune time to release this guide on how you can have your own RStudio server hosted in the cloud. Having …

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