2019 Top Programming Languages to code
Like last time in 2018, we do the Top Programming Languages (TPL) to code again, this time, in 2019! After reviewing the past TPL posts, we simplify the TPL criteria into 2 categories:
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Hong Kong Edition: Python Word Cloud for Job Seekers
Last time, we coded a Python Word Cloud Generator for Indeed.com users. This time, since Christmas is here, I would like to code a job seeking word cloud for my hometown — Hong Kong! So no matter you are living in Hong Kong or looking for jobs in Hong Kong, I hope this Hong Kong …
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Word Cloud for Job Seekers in Python
We tried Python web scraping project using scrapy and text mining project using TFIDF in past. This time, we are going to raise the bar, by combing two projects together. So we have our — text mining web scraper. Like our early post in the CodeAStar blog, it is always good to build something useful with …
Social Network Journey for Google Plus replacement
In case you don’t know, I am an avid Google+ user. On 8th October, 2018, Google announced to close Google+ around Summer 2019. The company revealed that Google+ has low usage and engagement — 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds. And most important, there was a security flaw which exposed users’ …
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AWS Tutorial: Deep Learning on Amazon Web Services
So far, we have entered several Kaggle’s machine learning competitions. Most of the time, we use Kaggle’s free kernel to solve the puzzles. From the Deal Probability Prediction challenge, we reached the limit of Kaggle’s kernel — the 17 GB RAM limit, while we were training our model. When we added more training data or …
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Amazon Tutorial: Deploy a Flask Docker image in ECS
We have learnt how to build a weather forecast Flask app. We have learnt how to deploy the Flask app to a Raspberry Pi using Docker. But we mostly focus on deploying our app in a local machine or a private network. In order to step up our game, we are going to deploy the app globally …
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The Great Migration to GitLab in Open Source community
GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket are homes for developers to share their open source projects to the public for free. We have seen so many great projects there in GitHub. Like the winning data science learning model — XGB, Python’s micro web framework — Flask, Microsoft’s own light and fast learning model — LGB and the …
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Easy Weather Forecast Flask Web App with Python
We have tried to code an Easy Weather Forecast Tool with Python. Yes, it is fast and easy, but it is just not that convenient to run anything on a command prompt. It is so…. 80s. It would be better if we can make a single-page Flask web app. Then we can run the weather …
[2018] Top Programming Languages to code in 2018
We posted a post on top programming languages in 2017, six months ago. It’s 2018, it’s a New Year, yes it is! So we are going to do the same thing again.
Tutorial: How to do web scraping in Python?
When we go for data science projects, like the Titanic Survivors and Iowa House Prices projects, we need data sets to process our predictions. In above cases, those data sets have already been collected and prepared. We only need to download the data set files then start our projects. But when we want to work for …