This guide provides an easy-to-understand foundation for beginners and intermediate users to leverage the Yahoo Finance API with Python for financial data analysis. Yahoo Finance API offers a wealth of financial data, from stock prices and market trends to currency exchange rates. This guide will introduce you to using the Yahoo Finance API yahoo_fin with … Read more
To create a Pandas Series for different data types, start by importing the Pandas library in Python using import pandas as pd. Then, create a Series object by using pd.Series(data), where data can be a list, array, or dictionary containing elements of various data types like integers, strings, or floats. Finally, you can specify the … Read more
Python provides robust tools for handling Excel files, and this article will guide you through the process of parsing Excel sheets into different formats using Python. To parse Excel sheets into text files and lists in Python, use the pandas library. Install pandas and openpyxl, then read the Excel file with pd.read_excel(). Convert the DataFrame … Read more
Here’s a minimal example of using colors in Matplotlib. This example creates a simple line plot with a specified color: In this minimal code example, plt.plot(x, y, color=’red’) creates a line plot of x versus y, with the line color set to red. You can replace ‘red’ with other color names like ‘blue’, ‘green’, etc., … Read more
In this guide, let’s delve into preparing a dataset of Wikipedia articles for search, utilizing the OpenAI API. The process involves In case you need a quick refresher on OpenAI embeddings, feel free to read through our Finxter article here: 👇 💡 Recommended: What Are Embeddings in OpenAI? Prerequisites Before starting, ensure that you have … Read more
Both Python and Go are extremely relevant today. Both languages are widely used. Golang fans argue that people flock from Python to the newer and faster language Golang, also known as Go. Is this true? Not really. See this search volume comparison from Google Trends: 👇 Go is a much newer language than Python, released … Read more
To get historical weather data in Python, install the Meteostat library using pip install meteostat or run !pip install meteostat with the exclamation mark prefix ! in a Jupyter Notebook. If you haven’t already, also install the Matplotlib library using pip install matplotlib. Then, copy the following code into your programming environment and change the … Read more
Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a network (V) is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (N²). In this article, I’ll develop a Bitcoin price prediction (V) in the year 2030 based on the average growth rate of the number of Bitcoin nodes (N). General Intuition Metcalfe’s … Read more
I’ve read the expression of large language models (LLMs) being “Money Laundering for Copyrighted Data” on Simon Willison’s blog. In today’s article, I’ll show you which exact training data sets open-source LLMs use, so we can gain some more insights into this new alien technology and, hopefully, get smarter and more effective prompters. Let’s get … Read more
Appending data to a Google Sheet using Python can be achieved using the gspread library. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you append data to a Google Sheet: Step 1: Set up Google Sheets API Step 2: Install GSpread Library and Authentication Run the following in your environment (e.g., Windows, Linux, macOS terminal/console/shell): pip install … Read more
In this project, you are taking the role of a data analyst. Your client, a large retail outlet has been running an affiliate marketing program in an effort to increase its sales. You are tasked to come up with a predictive model to predict how much should be budgeted for sales commission for the following … Read more
Highcharts.js is a client-side JavaScript library used for data visualization. It can be included in Django templates just like any other JavaScript library using the link: The hard work has already been done for us by Highcharts. Where we need to work on is finding a way to structure or format the data in a … Read more