Well, it turns out that my last blog that R was over 220 times faster than Python got a lot of (constructive) criticism saying that I wasn’t using “best practices” with Python, which was why my Python code was so slow. This is a totally acceptable critique; thus, I’ve ...

The number , while being an irrational and transcendental number is a central number to which much of mathematics and science at large relies on for many calculations. A whole book can be written on this matter alone, but today we are going to focus on approximating the true value of ...

How to create a robust solution for getting properly formatted addresses and geo-codes from Google maps using selenium and some Regular expressions in Python.

This post was inspired by one of Thomas Neitmann’s posts showing how to write some debugging code in R and Python to automatically search code errors on StackOverflow. Below is a simpler example where we do this with Amazon’s site. In this blog we are going to write ...

Note: This is an older post originally written as a LinkedIn article I wrote in late May. I have added information about shaping data thanks to Casper Crause using the data.table library. You can see our original correspondence in the comments there (for now) If you dabble in data, ...