Archive

Posts from the first era of Big-Ish Data (2015–2020), preserved at their original URLs.

2020

Apr 19, 2020
Apache Airflow Part 2 -- Connections, Hooks, reading and writing to Postgres, and XComs
Apr 4, 2020
Apache Airflow Part 1 -- Introduction, setup, and writing data to files

2019

Jul 27, 2019
Optimizing a Daily Fantasy Sports NBA lineup -- Knapsack, NumPy, and Giannis

2018

Jun 18, 2018
Using Clustering Algorithms to Analyze Golf Shots from the U.S. Open
Jun 14, 2018
U.S. Open Data -- Gathering and Understanding the Data from 2018 Shinnecock

2017

Dec 14, 2017
How To Write, Deploy, and Interact with Ethereum Smart Contracts on a Private Blockchain
Nov 20, 2017
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 4.2 -- Ethereum Proof of Work Difficulty Explained
Nov 12, 2017
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 4.1 -- Bitcoin Proof of Work Difficulty Explained
Nov 1, 2017
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 -- Writing Nodes that Mine and Talk
Oct 26, 2017
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 2 -- Syncing Chains From Different Nodes
Oct 16, 2017
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 1 -- Creating, Storing, Syncing, Displaying, Mining, and Proving Work
Oct 1, 2017
NPR Sunday Puzzle Solving, And Other Baby Name Questions
Jul 11, 2017
Guest Post - Learning R as an MBA Student
Jun 5, 2017
Web Scraping with Python -- Part Two -- Library overview of requests, urllib2, BeautifulSoup, lxml, Scrapy, and more!
May 10, 2017
Product Mentions Update -- Thoughts When Reviewing the Reddit Mentions
May 10, 2017
General Tips for Web Scraping with Python
Jan 13, 2017
Popular song lyrics have become more negative over time

2016

Dec 15, 2016
A Practical Use For Python Decorators -- Logging, Error Checks, and Timing
Dec 14, 2016
Running Python Background Jobs with Heroku
Dec 4, 2016
Classifying Amazon Reviews with Scikit-Learn -- More Data is Better Turns Out
Nov 25, 2016
Practical Naive Bayes -- Classification of Amazon Reviews
Oct 31, 2016
Classifying Country Music Songs is an Art -- Getting Training Data
Oct 24, 2016
Talkin' 'Bout Trucks, Beer, and Love in Country Songs -- Analyzing Genius Lyrics
Sep 26, 2016
Getting Song Lyrics from Genius's API + Scraping
Jul 4, 2016
Predicting PGA Tour Scoring Average from Statistics Using Linear Regression
May 7, 2016
Python, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and PGA Tour Stats
May 2, 2016
The Special Relationship Between Noodles and Qdoba
Apr 21, 2016
Defense Matters in the NBA, Apparently
Mar 4, 2016
Gather all the PGA Tour stats

2015

Jun 6, 2015
What's the Average Age of a Nobel Prize Winner?
Jun 1, 2015
When Curve Fitting Isn't Ideal
May 30, 2015
NBA Data Scraping -- Game Data
May 30, 2015
Weekly Fantasy Golf Results and a System of Linear Equations