Apr 15, 2019
Reading csv data from Github - Python
Today I decided to poke around a little to see if it would be possible to read csv files directly from Github, and the answer is yes. As...
Oct 9, 2018
Web scraping using selenium - Process - Python
In addition to BeautifulSoup, selenium is a very useful package for webscraping when it involves repeated user interaction with the...
Jul 19, 2018
Singapore's Heartbeat
​As Singapore's National Day is coming up, I decided to put together a data viz to better understand how much we have changed across the...
Jul 7, 2018
Extracting data from tables in PDF
Having data in tables in PDF is probably one of the most agonizing thing for users. It feels as if the data is there but not there....
Jul 3, 2018
Rescuing Veggies with Data Science
It's always exciting when the data visualization or analysis you did is used to push forward a movement or a cause. Most would agree this...
May 11, 2018
Government agencies in SG - Process - Python
This is Part I of a two-part post. Part I talks about scraping data from SGDI while Part II outlines the process of presenting the data...
Jan 17, 2018
Web scraping using Beautifulsoup - Process - Python
This is Part I of a four-part post. Part I talks about scraping data from a website (bookdepository.com, in this case) while Part II...
Dec 17, 2017
Scraping Twitter data - Process - Python
This is Part I of a four-part post. Part I talks about collecting text data from Twitter while Part II discusses analysis on text data...