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Introduction to Google Colab

12th December 202012th December 2020 M SmithLeave a comment

Colab is a free Jupyter notebook environment that runs entirely in the cloud. Most importantly, it does not require a setup and the notebooks that you create can be simultaneously …

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Creating a Flask App on a subdomain

18th August 202018th August 2020 M SmithLeave a comment

Background This website is hosted on Digital Ocean with WordPress. While WordPress is a great tool for building a website I wanted a place where I could build and host …

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A Basic Data Studio dashboard with Matomo Analytics data

18th April 202018th April 2020 M SmithLeave a comment

This post walks through how to create a Data Studio dashboard like the one below using Matomo analytics data. The components used to put this together include: A Matomo installation …

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Interacting with Big Query using pandas

15th March 202015th March 2020 M Smith1 Comment

Big Query For those who are into data, Big Query is a great choice if you would like a database but database management is not your thing. Big Query acts …

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Making HTML reports from markdown files

25th December 201925th December 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Since having found Markdown a few years back I have become a big fan. Markdown is a language that allows you to write plain text that can be converted into …

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Environment Variables in Python

17th October 201917th October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Many python scripts require access to external services. API’s for example often require some credentials to be used in order to be able to access the services. These scripts need …

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App Engine notes and resources

9th September 20192nd October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Installation Using Google App Engine requires having the Google Cloud SDK installed on your local machine. This SDK allows for deployment of the application into Google App Engine. Windows installation: …

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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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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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