In an increasingly complex world with equally tangled problems, a simple solution is a good solution. I’ll give you an example: I want to listen to (not read) articles from the internet while I’m out in the sun. …

Web scraping is a method of extracting vast volumes of data from websites and saving it to a local file on your device or to a database in spreadsheet form. Many websites’ data can only be accessed by a web browser. They don’t allow you to keep a copy of…

The Internet includes vast amounts of information, and having access to valuable data can really jumpstart a business. But manually collecting and storing anything we find helpful would be a pain in the neck. After figuring out what data to gather, the other big issue is collecting it and storing…

At first glance, many might think that communication between computers or programs is simple. “They just talk in 1s and 0s” right? Well, not quite. That’d be like saying that humans communicate by making noises with their mouths. …

In our increasingly digital world, more and more business happens online. A company’s website is sometimes the primary way through which consumers can interact with their brand or product. This is especially true of news companies, which have moved away from print media and embraced the online world. With all…

Data science is expanding the world’s ability to detect patterns, forecast the future, and draw profound knowledge from vast data sets as never before. Information is, without a doubt, the lifeblood of every data science project. …

Being one of the largest business catalogs on the Internet, Yelp offers a lot of information about your competition and how people see your business. If you’ve never heard of Yelp, just know that you can find a lot of information about restaurants, hotels, dentists, gyms, landscapers, even plumbers on…

I’ve been writing about web scraping for a while now, both on general subjects and niche use cases or projects I found interesting. …

Hello and welcome to today’s episode of “What makes an API tick?” where we will be talking about what makes an API shine and what are their most commonly encountered design mistakes. When using or building an API, developers must ask themselves a few questions first. Is it consistent? Will…