A Short Guide to Base64’s History and Purpose Base64 is a system of binary-to-text transcoding schemas, which enable the bidirectional transformation of various binary and non-binary content to plain text and back. Compared to binary content, storage and transfer of textual content over the network is significantly simplified and opens many possibilities for flexible data … Read more
Seaborn is a data visualization library for Python. This tutorial will briefly describe simple techniques for styling a pie chart using only a single function from this robust library. Although Seaborn does not include a function to build pie charts, it can be used to refine the aesthetics of pie charts created with Matplotlib. The … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Full-Stack Web Developer? A full-stack web developer works both with back-end and front-end web technologies. Full-stack developers have skills in all those fields so they often take crucial roles in overseeing the technical implementation of large web projects. … Read more
Problem: How to convert a list of lists to a csv file? Example: Given is a list of list—for example salary data of employees in a given company: Your goal is to write the content of the list of lists into a comma-separated-values (CSV) file format. Your out file should look like this: # file.csv … Read more
Streamlit is an easy-to-use rapid web application development platform. It can create compelling data visualizations using python. Line charts are one of the many types of charts that Streamlit can display. Line charts are often a great visual for displaying numerical data over time. This tutorial will teach you how to easily create and configure … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a Python list of integer or float numbers. How to calculate the median of a Python list? Formally, the median is “the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample” (wiki). Note that the median is different to the mean or average as can be seen in … Read more
💡 Scrapy is a useful web-crawling framework in Python. Scrapy can handle static websites, a static website is a website with fixed content coded in HTML and displayed in a browser exactly as it is stored. A dynamic website however contains content that changes depending on different factors. To crawl those sites, a browser to … Read more
This article will present how the python package splash can be used to scrape dynamic content from a website. More precisely, I will download some images. 💡 Scrapy is a useful web-crawling framework in Python. However, Scrapy can only handle static websites, a static website is a website with fixed content coded in HTML and … Read more
In this article, we review some of the online options for running Python using online (Jupyter) Notebooks. The Python Landscape There are a number of platforms available for running Python. Some of these include: Install Python on your own machine. Use Jupyter notebooks on your own machine. Use a data science platform like Anaconda on … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview In this article, you’ll learn how to convert HEX values to an ASCII string in Python. To make it more fun, we have the following running scenario: Carrier Coders has decided to display a Quote of the Day on their website. Each quote is transmitted daily as HEX values. You … Read more
In this guide, I’ve compiled the top 7 freelancing niches I found highly profitable based on my experience working as a business owner and freelancer myself, hiring hundreds of freelance developers for my company, and teaching thousands of freelancing students through our books and courses. Each niche is presented with a video where I show … Read more
Problem Formulation: Given a float number. How to round the float down in Python? Here are some examples of what you want to accomplish: Solution: If you have little time, here’s the most straightforward answer: To round a positive or negative number x down in Python, apply integer division // to x and divide by … Read more