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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …