Introduction I first learned Python about 10 years ago because I was interested in web scraping. From my intel, I learned that Python was an excellent tool for extracting information from websites, web scraping. After using it for my personal needs, I soon started seeking out gigs to earn some money…

“True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.” — George Dantzig — I was intrigued by the concept of optimization when I attended the course Operations Research (OR) during my undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering half a decade ago. The main reason this course was fascinating to me was that it dealt with solving real-world problems such as optimizing the workflow in…

Improve your skills and have fun at the same time. — Often, when we try to learn a new skill or get into a new field, we invest a lot of time, effort, and sometimes money into learning and mastering this skill or field. …

Steps to Create a Website and Paywall using Pure Python — Subscription Services are BOOMING! Subscription businesses are a growing part of the economy with no signs of slowing down. Research from Zuora, a company that helps its users set up subscriptions, found that 71% of adults across 12 countries have subscription services. As someone who likes building things from scratch instead of using paid…

Often it’s hard to find inspiration to automate using Python. I think knowing packages might give you an idea of what to automate. In this article, I’ll talk about 7 Python packages that can inspire your next automation. Requests Usually, when you want to automate something, you might come across APIs…

An in-depth analysis of how to leverage SQL and Python while working with stock data. Co-authored with Isaac Rhea Introduction When working with stock data it is crucial to find tools that allow for large amounts of data and simple ways to filter and derive meaning from it. In a recent…

Exciting tools and apps whether you’re an amateur and seasoned investors — The cryptocurrency and blockchain landscape continues growing exponentially. With more developers and projects, there’s a rich ecosystem for you to explore. I want to talk about seven awesome apps I’ve gotten into recently. **This article isn’t intended to provide any financial or investment advice. I am writing this purely for…

Welcome back! Web development is an awesome thing you can do with Python, so let’s go ahead and see a built-out website about real estate with Python! …

A simplified approach to provisioning robust and scalable data warehouses — Introduction With the abundance and proliferation of data in this day and age, there is an inherent need to store and reuse that wealth of information in a meaningful way. It is analogous to having a kitchen inundated with a multitude of utensils and tools to use, without having an organized…

In todays blog I’m going to show you some games you can play while killing time to make some cryptocurrency. These games are all free to download and play and require zero investment unlike some other crypto games. These games can be downloaded on your phone and can also be…

Build a Book Recommender Using the Python Programming Language

One main concern of investment is to know how well our investment portfolio performs in a market full of fluctuation and uncertainty. We need some key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the returns as well as the risk of our investment portfolio. …

Automate your tweets — To promote my medium articles, sometimes I post them on my LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. Since I was repeating the same task over and over again, I wanted to automate this task. So I wrote a bot that updates my Twitter using GitHub Actions and Python on my behalf. …

Migrating away from python-binance! — My crypto trading bot project currently supports the Coinbase Pro and Binance exchanges. Coinbase Pro was first, and I implemented all the API integration code myself using the official documentation. I then implemented Binance in version 2. …

The complete guide to web scraping: Beautiful Soup, Selenium, Scrapy, XPath, and more! — Web Scraping is the process of extracting data from a website. Although you only need the basics of Python to start learning web scraping, this might sometimes get complicated because web scraping goes beyond Python. …

Create a beautiful visualization app from scratch with Python — When I started working on my capstone project a few months ago, I wanted to create an interactive dashboard for my machine learning model. I wanted this dashboard to be in the form of a web application and display live updates as new data entered the system. After exploring many…

Beginner and advanced projects to learn web scraping in Python from scratch. — Think of all the things you do during the day. You might read the news, send emails, find the best deal for a product, or search jobs online. Most of these tasks can be automated with web scraping, so instead of spending hours looking through websites, a computer would do…