Here’s a walkthrough of a website I built that will analyze text sentiment on the fly — All data scientists know how good computers are getting at analysing text, but most other people don’t. So being a man of the people, I thought I’d give them what they don’t know they need — a website where they can analyse their own eBook. You can read about the…

A surprisingly easy approach to showcasing your Matplotlib plots and Pandas dataframes online for the whole world to see — in less than 100 lines of code. Have you ever wanted to have a visualisation or dataframe accessible from your laptop or phone without having to run the code every time? Wouldn't it be just great if you could leave it running in the background and have a web address in which you could access the data…

“Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose. Clean code never obscures the designer’s intent but rather is full of crisp abstractions and straightforward lines of control.” — Robert C. Martin I spend a lot of time writing and I spend a lot of time coding. …

Here’s a compilation of all the other guides on this topic. — I used to know nothing about SEO, so I read everything there is to read on it. Here’s what I found. Succinctly put together to give you what you need to know to get started — nothing more. I’ll briefly introduce the topic and then jump straight into the plan. …

A succinct introduction to Git — A lot of introductions to Git are very convoluted and overcomplicated. It’s actually a very simple technology to use once you get your head around it. You don’t need to spend much time on it at all, so here’s a very basic introduction in 4 minutes — with absolutely no…

Do you want to sleep better at night knowing that your code isn’t going to break? Then this article is for you. — What are unit tests, why unit testing is important, what are the best practices for unit tests, and how do I implement unit tests in Python? If you’d like to know the answers to these questions and more, read on. What are tests? Testing is a simple and intuitive concept. You write tests…

A deep dive into isolation forests with Python — Calculus jokes are mostly derivative, trigonometry jokes are too graphic, algebra jokes are usually formulaic, and arithmetic jokes are pretty basic. But the occasional statistics joke is an outlier. Nobody wants outliers in their data — especially when they have come from the likes of false entries due to fat…

How to use Dash and Bootstrap to create interactive, scientific, and beautiful web applications — Here’s what we’re going to build (make sure to watch the whole thing to see all the various capabilities). It’s an interactive dashboard that shows you fantasy football data. It’s interactive, reactive, and extremely efficient. The user has full control over any of the visualisations and can dive into the data in any way they see fit. And it's barely over 200 lines of code all in.

2022, another year, another side hustle. Why not code your own this time? — Disclaimer: This article is only for educational purposes. We do not encourage anyone to scrape websites, especially those web properties that may have terms and conditions against such actions. Beautiful Soup, Scrapy or Selenium? I’ve got a project coming up soon that will require a good bit of web scraping. Therefore, I’ve decided to take…