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Web scraping and Beautiful Soup

Posted on October 29, 2022November 18, 2022 by Yesim Semchenko

Let us say that you want to search for a course to take, and there are many online courses on the Internet, making you confused. Instead of clicking on each and every course, and going back and forth to compare, if allowed, you can scrape the data and make your comparisons more conveniently. Let us…

Sending personalized mass emails via Python when the email list is taken from the Postgresql database

Posted on May 1, 2022May 1, 2022 by Yesim Semchenko

Hello! In one of my previous blog posts, I wrote about how to send personalized mass emails. However, in that blog post, we were taking the list of emails from a csv file. What if you have your list of emails in the PostgreSQL database? Imagine that you have a schema and under that schema,…

Getting a nutrition analysis via EDAMAM’s API

Posted on April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 by Yesim Semchenko

Hello! I recently came across EDAMAM and found out that it offers a free API for developers (not unlimited though) for nutritional analysis! After signing up, you create an app, and get an app id and app key. By using those along with the endpoint, it is possible to find out the nutritional analysis of…

Working on Google Sheets with Python

Posted on December 19, 2021December 19, 2021 by Yesim Semchenko

Why? Google sheets are widely used due to various reasons such as being free of charge and allowing multiple people to work on them. But if you want to document each move for your future self and/or for your colleagues, connecting to Google sheets via Python can be a good idea. The benefit of having…

Data visualization with Plotly

Posted on September 15, 2021October 2, 2021 by Yesim Semchenko

Plotly is an interactive data visualization library in Python, R, MATLAB, Perl, Julia, Arduino, and REST. I prepared a short notebook in Kaggle to show its usage and how the output looks like. I used the dataset indicating Covid19 World Vaccination Progress from Gabriel Preda. Initially, I created a static scatter plot with seaborn so…

Color Selection with Color Brewer (free-to-use tool)

Posted on September 13, 2021September 14, 2021 by Yesim Semchenko

Today I will talk about Color Brewer, my most-used (free!) color selection tool. Depending on your audience and topic, there are a few things to be considered when selecting the colors for your figure. For example, if you are going to present your figures to the public, then it is important to use color-blind-friendly colors….

Instagram data visualization exercise with Seaborn!

Posted on December 13, 2020December 13, 2020 by Yesim Semchenko

Hi there! It is been a while since my last post, and I wanted to come back with a fun little project! I have an instagram account where I mostly post food photos, with few followers, and I have the data of my posts reach, impressions, profile visits, likes, and comments. To create a common…

Bash 101

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by Yesim Semchenko

Hello there!! Knowing bash can make your life real easier, so why not trying it with me? I am a Mac user (do not feel ready for the Linux battles just yet!) so, everything I share here will work on Mac for sure, for other operating systems, it might need slight adjustments. First of all,…

Back to Data Analysis: Correlation

Posted on October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 by Yesim Semchenko

The last time I wrote about data analysis, I shared how to navigate through the data and how to do the basic descriptive analysis. Now, high time to start diving in, and do some analysis such as correlation! For that we will install SciPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib libraries. I will talk about three different correlation…

Django Girls!

Posted on October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 by Yesim Semchenko

It has been a while since I wrote my last blog, and here I brought you news from a recent event, Django girls workshop! (For those who are wondering what Django is,  it is a Python web framework.)  Django girls is an excellent initiation for women who are interested in IT. They organize free workshops…

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