Pro tips: Writing lean Python code

Python is one of the most important programming languages, especially for data scientists. Sometimes I find myself going through hundreds …

Parsing 101: Extracting data from web pages

Over the past two weeks, I made great progress in collecting data for a new research project of mine. I …

Quick tips: Dealing with really large datasets

The increasing availability of large-scale public datasets is a goldmine for many researchers and data analysts. For example, great potential …