Users of the internet have witnessed many movements over the past few decades. We have seen the shift from Web 2.0 to 3.0 and social media’s rise and widespread use. There is, however, a new movement taking place on the internet which is becoming increasingly hard to
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Following on from my previous post about what I’ve learnt from writing up my PhD thesis, writing up a PhD thesis is no easy task and requires years of hard work. The journey of writing up the PhD is never as linear as we would like it to be
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Very few people in life will find themselves in a situation where they are required to write up a rather lengthy document such as a PhD thesis. If you’re reading this post you might very well be a PhD student yourself or familiar with the process at least. Whether
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EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Social media is incredibly useful for maintaining friendships, reaching out and interacting with others. In particular, social media platforms like Twitter allow people to share and
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EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. In a separate blog post, we covered the basics for learning how to stream tweets from Twitter using Python. This is ideal if you are interested
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EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Collecting tweets from Twitter can be done in a number of different ways. In a previous blog post, we showed how to extract social network interactions
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EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Many data science projects involve interacting with an API in order to scrape data which can be used for analysis. From an academic perspective, Twitter is
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In a separate blog post, we talked about the need for building highly interactive data visualisations which you can show off to others. That’s great if you would prefer to create visualisations without the stress of having to write any code. That being said, you may find yourself in
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Being able to visualise your data is an essential part of helping your people understand key concepts derived from your data. In a previous blog post, we covered some of the most widely used and popular Python packages for doing just this. One thing that these packages lack is the
Like many people up and down this country, I too am lost for words at the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. For as long as I have been alive, she has always been on the throne. Let’s be honest, we all knew this day would come and now it
There is an abundance of freely available datasets on the internet for pretty much anything and everything you can think of. In a previous blog post, we covered five different platforms for finding useful datasets. However, as mentioned in the post, there are times when you may need to collect
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Python is known for being able to do many different things due to the versatility of the programming language. One thing Python is particularly well-known for is its ability to receive data over the Web using the requests package (more information can be found here). The requests package enables users
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Data visualisation is an incredibly important component of data science. By using visual representations of data, we can help provide meaningful insights which are easy to understand. Conveniently, for those who use Python as their main programming language of choice, there are many potential options to explore however, not all
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If you’ve ever worked with Pandas in Python before, you’ll know that there are a bunch of different ways in which you can import tabulated data. Pandas is perhaps one of the most widely used Python packages for loading, manipulating and exporting data. We’ve even explored this
Considering how well Jesus has captured their attention, we might feel compelled to start asking questions like, “how do I become a follower” and “what must I do?”. As we reach the end of this passage, we learn that there is a cost to discipleship. We learn that not only
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In the second part of this passage, we learn about the importance of trusting in Jesus’ plans over our own plans. When Jesus asked his disciples and others what they think of him, he already know what they were thinking. He was very familiar with the popular beliefs at the