Python Web Scraper Docker Image
Frankly, I couldn’t come up with a cooler title than what you just read I was thinking to create a long post giving you the step-by-step instructions on how to install everything you need to scrape the...
View ArticlePython Business Intelligence Cookbook Pre-Order Offer
I know how hard it can be to take what you read in a book, especially a data science book, and apply it to the data you have to work with. I want to save you that experience. If you pre-order my...
View ArticleCreate a Simple Python Web Scraper to Get Pricing Data
There are many methods in Python to create a web scraper. One of the simplest is using a combination of the built-in requests library (to obtain web pages) and the Beautiful Soup library (to parse the...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar: How to Choose a Data Science Tool
Join me on November 16th, 2015 at 1:00 PM (New York) and 10 AM (California), for a free webinar – How to Choose a Data Science Tool. On this webinar you’ll discover: The four phases of selecting the...
View ArticleExamples of Data Pipelines You Can Build Today
Over the past few months I started hearing the term “data pipeline” more and more at the local data meetups. Curious as to just what that meant, I looked it up. In this post I’m going to tell you what...
View ArticleData Science in Five Steps
When my daughter Palamee was younger she watched a cartoon with a character named Special Agent Oso. Oso would complete his missions using three simple steps. In a recent conversation I was asked to...
View ArticleDistrict Data Labs Incubator Now Accepting Applications
During the dotcom boom of 2000 I found myself in a catch 22: I couldn’t get a tech job without experience, but I could get experience without a job. Fast forward to 2016. Companies are scrambling to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Data Science Studio User Group
On November 13, 2013 I founded Data Wranglers DC (DWDC). The focus of Data Wranglers has and is data engineering, the 80-90% of time spent on data projects that most people don’t like to talk about....
View ArticleThe Next Four Months at Data Wranglers DC
Following the Black Hat Data Wrangling talk that Travis Hoppe and I did to kick off the 2016 year of Data Wranglers DC, the next four months is going to be awesome. Here’s the lineup: February 8th:...
View ArticleDDL Data Science Project Pitchfest 3
The Spring cohort of the District Data Labs Data Science Project Incubator is coming to a conclusion with Pitchfest this Friday evening. I’m inviting you to join us and check out the projects that the...
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