
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...
Apr 15, 2019

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...
Oct 9, 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 19, 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 7, 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...
Jul 3, 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...
May 11, 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...
Jan 17, 2018

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...
Dec 17, 2017