A friend recently asked me what I thought about parlay betting. I figured this would make a good case study on practical data science. I’ll go over this like what would normally happen in a consulting engagement. Let’s get into it. The Question/Problem Friend thought parlay dumbing was a dumb bet and that sports books… Read More Practical Data Science: An Analysis of Sports Betting Winnability
I wanted to create a quick tutorial on how to play chess with an AI in Python. Here you go, should you be interested Github for tutorial is located here tutorials/python_chess at master · rogerfitz/tutorials (github.com) Use it to analyze your own play or beat your friends in chess.
Get the code Was talking with my Aunt about some bracket advice today and realized I should make a quick tutorial for more tech minded people. It’s a pretty reusable approach. Just scrape betting information to make picks. Golf is another good one where this works. In the tutorial I go through: Scraping a website… Read More March Madness Bracket using Betting Futures and Python
New tutorial series is out! In it I show how you can : Scan your own books using video, not pictures, so it’s easier to record. Automatically detect page turns to find “keyframes” from the page turning video Extract the text using OCR (using AWS Textract and Microsoft Read) Check OCR accuracy using Project Gutenberg… Read More Create Audio Books from your Bookshelf Using Python
Today I want to write about what I’m calling the “I did something fallacy”. If this has already been named please let me know! Also, this is not meant to be a direct criticism of Obama, that medal meme is very common and that is why I used it. Anyways. Essentially society, especially committees/groups, end… Read More Problems of Symbolism: The I did something fallacy
Where to begin. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want out of my life. In some ways there is so much time left but in other ways there is not. How I’ve Lived The early part of my post college career was focused on accumulating $ quickly so I can let the… Read More Yearly Reflection: 2021
I often see people ask how to get more history from Reddit. Say you want every post from 2020 on /r/wallstreetbets. The official Reddit API doesn’t let you do that. Thankfully there is another project out there called Pushshift that stores an archive of Reddit you can query. And query much faster than using Reddit.… Read More How to Use the Reddit API with Pushshift to Bypass API Limits
This is the first of many coding tutorials I will publish here with the goal of teaching you Python through QUICK tutorials. All designed to be doable within a weeknight or weekend. Jupyter Notebooks are a great tool for rapid prototyping in Python (as well as other languages) Super helpful for data science and web… Read More Learn How to Use Jupyter while Scraping Dogecoin Prices
We look at the world the wrong way. All too often we think of how things were or are. Will things get back to normal? I wish we could back to simpler times. That restaurant is good. Those mountains were formed millenia ago. The climate shouldn’t be changing. COVID is bad but viral pneumonia is… Read More Trusting the “Science” and the Delta Variant
Learn how to parse PDF’s in Python in my new video! I go over parsing terms of service PDF’s and show you how to visualize the difference between different texts. See code here tutorials/text_compare at master · rogerfitz/tutorials (github.com) This video is part of a new series I’m doing where I have a few drinks… Read More PDF Parsing in Python: A Quickstart to Comparing 2 Documents
