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Was surprised to see my post trending. Since it caught on, I would cross-share it over here. While the post was meant to answer a...

Nov 10, 2019

In this webscraping attempt, I want to get data on countries, sites and categories of sites in one table. One challenge I faced is to get...

Nov 2, 2019

As with my other posts, I am using the title "data scientist" loosely because titles are not consistently used across the industry so to...

Aug 11, 2019

I got to chance upon the emoji python package that allows printing emojis in Python and decided to collect some data relating to emojis...

Jun 23, 2019

A typical question faced is how much data is considered enough. The answer is it depends. First and foremost, we need to know what...

May 7, 2019

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

This is a tutorial to get the frequency distribution of words used in a chunk of text and is a simpler alternative to a more elaborate...

Dec 15, 2018

In addition to BeautifulSoup, selenium is a very useful package for webscraping when it involves repeated user interaction with the...

Oct 9, 2018

This is Part I of a two-part post. Part I outlines the process of presenting the data using Tableau and Part II delves into insights from...

Sep 1, 2018

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