Web Scraping, Part 1: Web Scraping Basics
While I have some writing momentum, I’m going to take a stab at a series on teaching some web scraping. My plan is to do this through some case studies of…
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On Web Scraping
Web scraping is the art of programmatically extracting content from the web. For those entirely unfamiliar with the concept of web scraping, consider this example. It was theorized that doctors who…
Tracking Personal Finances
I spend a few hours every month, neurotically tracking personal finances for me and my family. At the end of every month, I go through each of our accounts and…
ProjectSHERPA: a startup retrospective
Over several years, while fully employed, some friends and I built a startup with whatever time we could scrape together. ProjectSHERPA was an imagining of what the tech recruiting marketplace could…
Better Babies
When I was a baby, my parents did flash cards with me – tons of flash cards, hundreds a day, for several years. They started this with me when I…
Can Yelp Reviews Predict Real Estate Prices?
I took a Data Science class in my MBA program, and I was recently re-reading our final project write-up. The assignment was to take a complex data set, do some analysis on…
I Type Faster Than You
The average person types around 40 words per minute (WPM). I type about 130-140 WPM (proof). Sometimes, and this might sound weird, I feel in the zone and can type…
Don’t Look at My Baby
My daughter, Riley, was born about a month ago. Months before that, our families were already asking for pictures – of the ultrasounds. (An AVG Technologies study found that 1…
A Side Project
My track record for posting here has been pretty poor the past 2 years. It’s tough to find time to write something interesting, let alone think up something interesting to…
Plumbing and Coding
I’m in a new home (actually, I’m not – I wrote this post a year ago and for whatever reason failed to hit ‘publish’ on it), and I want to…