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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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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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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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Some lesser known python libraries

8th October 20178th October 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

While listening to the Talk Python to me podcast I stumbled across this episode which talks in depth about “20 python libraries you aren’t using (but should)”.

Continue reading “Some lesser known python libraries” →

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