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Bitten by Unicode
by joseph carboni Parsing Dollar Figures One product of mine takes reports that come in as a table that’s been exported to PDF, which means text extraction. For dollar figures I find a prefixed dollar symbol and convert the number following it into a float. If there’s a hyphen in addition to the dollar symbol, it’s…
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Train and Deploy A Scikit-learn Model
By Joseph Carboni I’ve been taking a course through Codecademy on Machine Learning. Let me tell you, it’s great – worth the money. If there’s one thing I’ve learned so far, it’s that implementing a machine learning model is shockingly easy. Understanding what you want and how to format the data is more challenging than…
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SQLite and Python
by Toby Ho SQLite is a lightweight SQL relational database. Although it is not built for multi-user concurrent applications, it has become a staple data storage option for mobile, desktop, and even websites for client-side storage. Chances are you’ve encountered SQLite as the default development database option for web frameworks like Django. What you might…
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How to Leverage AI to Fit a Product to the Market
Why AI is over hyped I have been a software engineer for over 9 years. I have seen many “Game Changing” new technologies come and go. From Blockchain, GraphQL and now AI. AI is different from the Others though, it salves problems that are widely understandable and work outside of a small niche. GraphQL Salves…
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From problem to Python
Developing a website monitoring tool By Joseph Carboni This is an example of using an acute business problem as an opportunity to use Python for a helpful solution – a website status monitor. An exercise in looping, making web requests, and running a python utility from the command line. (Given the nature of the problem,…
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Making a website with just python standard library
Have you ever wanted to know what it would take to actually write a website in python? Some kind of simple project that would allow you to learn how python creates a front end using just the standard library is easy.You simply need to use http.server and socketserver. Define a port and create a class…
