https://davidan.dev/tags/python/ Recent content in python on David An Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://davidan.dev/posts/datamining/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://davidan.dev/posts/datamining/ At the beginning of any data analytics/data science project, the most usual case is utilizing Pandas to load the data into a object called a DataFrame and perform preprocessing tasks on it. While the Pandas library is convenient and comes with a trove of useful analytic tools, it does have some inefficiencies, many due to the nature of Python. To investigate this, let’s look at how Pandas actually works on top of Python. https://davidan.dev/research/uconnscrape/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://davidan.dev/research/uconnscrape/ Scraping Web Data for Academic Literature Done in collaboration with Dr. Emiliano Valdez1, University of Connecticut Goals How obvious are actual trends in academic literature and how can we easily gather academic literature metadata? The purpose of the exploratory study was to develop and analyze different methods of data retrieval from multiple sources. Given a text search within context, we should be able to retrieve a list of articles that contain that segment of text.