Kat McKelvie

At university, I found my love of writing and coding. Both of which I was able to use in my career.During the past 15 years, I have held a number of positions such as:In-house Corporate Technical Writer for various software programs such as Navision and Microsoft CRM Corporate Trainer (staff of 30+) Programming Instructor Implementation Specialist for Navision and Microsoft CRM Senior PHP Coder

Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python

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This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax Background There are many libraries around that make HTTP requests. However, the requests … Read more

Python Pandas pivot()

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Syntax pandas.pivot(data, index=None, columns=None, values=None) Return Value: The return value for the pivot() function is a reshaped DataFrame organized by index/column values. Background Direct quote from the Pandas Documentation website: This function does not support data aggregation. If there are multiple values, they will result in a Multi-Index in the columns. This article delves into … Read more

Python Pandas melt()

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Syntax pandas.melt(frame, id_vars=None, value_vars=None, var_name=None, value_name=’value’, col_level=None, ignore_index=True) Return Value The return value for the melt() function is an unpivoted DataFrame. Background Direct quote from the Pandas Documentation website: “This function massages a DataFrame into a format where one or more columns are identifier variables (id_vars). While all other columns are considered measured variables (value_vars), … Read more

BeatifulSoup Find *

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Preparation This article assumes you have the following libraries installed: Requests Beautifulsoup and a basic understanding of: HTML CSS Python Add the following code to the top of each code snippet. This snippet will allow the code in this article to run error-free. Beautifulsoup Find by ID If the HTML code contains one or more … Read more

Python Excel – Styling Your Worksheets

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Part 6 in Working with Excel focuses on styling. Impress your customers by styling the Worksheet to match their brand by: adding in their unique logo, using their color scheme, using their preferred font style, formatting the Worksheet using their preferred report style. Taking the time to do this makes you stand above the crowd. … Read more

Python Excel – Sum, Average, Max, and Date Formulas

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Part 5 in the Working with Excel series focuses on formulas.   Background After completing Part 4 of this series, you should be comfortable using Python and openpyxl to: add worksheets rename worksheets reorder worksheets delete Worksheets The j-greats.xlsx file should exist on your system.  If you do not have this particular file, click here … Read more

Python Excel – Basic Worksheet Operations

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Part 4 in the Working with Excel series focuses on Worksheet(s) manipulation.   Background After completing Part 3 of this series, you should be comfortable using Python and openpyxl to: append row(s), modify data, insert column(s), delete row(s) and column(s) The j-greats.xlsx file should exist on your system. If you do not have this particular … Read more

Python Excel – Manipulating Worksheet Data

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Building on the skill(s) you learned earlier, Part 3 centers around manipulating the data. This skill is another must-have if you are interested in pursuing a career as a Data Scientist. Background After completing Part 2 of this series, you should be comfortable using Python to: access a single row/column value, access a range of … Read more

Python Get Values from a Nested Dictionary

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A Python nested dictionary is a dictionary with another dictionary or dictionaries nested within (dictionary of dictionaries or collection of collections). Nested dictionaries are one way to represent structured data (similar to a database table(s) relationship). An analogy for this concept is the Russian Nesting Dolls.   Our article focuses on various ways to retrieve … Read more

Python Convert List Pairs to a Dictionary

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The Python dictionary is a structure used to store data. This data type is appropriate when the data needs to contain labels (unique keys) associated with a value (key:value). Python lists are not able to handle this format. The list(s) will require conversion to a dictionary format (key:value). There are various ways to accomplish this … Read more