Articles by Benjamin Smith

RvsPython #6: LinkedIn has spoken!

October 18, 2021 | Benjamin Smith

Introduction Over the past while with my time on LinkedIn, I got to have exposure to many people from many different lines of work. I also managed to have carved a space for myself there where I can post about Data Science topics and share my blogs along the way. ...

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Python Musings #7: Simulating FSAs in lieu of real postal code data.

October 1, 2021 | Benjamin Smith

Disclaimer The following is the same content that I have posted in my other blog on this topic in R, but written in Python. While I actually first wrote the code for doing this in Python, I’ll be posting the similar verbiage from that blog here. Introduction Often when ... [...Read more...]

PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module

September 14, 2021 | Benjamin Smith

Whats great about Blogging and social media is that you get to learn so much if you use it right. After sharing my last blog on LinkedIn, Casper Crause told me about the siuba module created by Michael Chow from which allows Python users experience to using R’s powerful ... [...Read more...]

PythonMusings: Make a Stock/Crypto Ticker Discord Bot with this Simple Script!

May 3, 2021 | Benjamin Smith

With a little bit of time off I decided to explore the discord.py module again with trying to make some of my own Discord bots. The bot I decided to make is a simple stock/crypto ticker bot that tracks the live price of a stock/crypto that I ...