The Hogwarts Regex challenge + explanation

29 Mar 2023 in Python

A friendly coding challenge + explanation to get you started with Regular Expressions

Welcome challengee - it is time to perform magic with Python. In this challenge you will be working with Regex (short for Regular Expressions), a language with which you can match and retrieve strings of text or numbers. This allows you to turn messy real world data (e.g. from websites, emails, or other forms of communication) into a neat data structure (e.g. a Pandas Dataframe).

Producing time series data from topic models in Scikit-learn

26 Nov 2021 in Python

Analyzing more than 12.000 Disneyland Paris Tripadvisor reviews to detect understandings of Disneyland as a “magical world” vs Disneyland as a “hassle.”

This blogpost provides a fully working script to: i) open and prepare a dataset; ii) run a model; and iii) retrieve new, useful information from the model’s output.

Compute community-level metrics in social networks with NetworkX

22 Nov 2021 in Python

Community detection in dolphin networks (and why social scientists may be interested).

This blogpost provides a fully working script to: i) open and prepare a dataset; ii) run a model; and iii) retrieve new, useful information from the model’s output.

How to get started with Python

19 Nov 2021 in Python

A friendly introduction to some powerful tools

This page will help you to start with Python. My main advice is that you should opt for Python programming in Anaconda as it is the most easy and powerful option.