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Feb 15, 2022 How to use GeoPy
Sometimes you might want to transform or unify a bunch of addresses. To do this, you can take advantage of GeoPy.

Jan 14, 2022 Reading in a PDF Table using Python
Often we have to process data in annoying formats. One exampel are PDF Tables. But luckily Python can help! Here we will read in a table from a pdf file using Python.

Dec 10, 2021 LDA Topic Modeling - The example of CEDEFOP Skill Descriptions
Often we would like to identify topics in a large set of data. This could be the case if we analyze a large set of newspaper articles, for example. Going through all newspapers of the last year would be an insane task, but luckily Machine Learning can help!

Aug 5, 2021 Counting words on twitter
We might be interested in analyzing the kind of words that are published within a certain subarea. How can we systemize and clean the text published in twitter posts to extract more useful information? This blogposts shows you how!

Aug 1, 2021 Extracting geographic location information from twitter
Some twitter users publish information about locations in twitter. They might indicate their place of residence or tweet from a specific location. They might also mention a location in their tweet either by simple words or by hashtags. How can we access this information from twitter and make use of it?

Aug 1, 2021 Using Tweepy to analyze Twitter Data with Python
Twitter data contains large amounts of data. Users express feelings, opinions, make statements or political claims. Twitter data has large potentials for sentiment analysis or to analyze attitudes. The downside is that it is quite messy. Python can help us to access the twitter universe more easily. This post gives an overview of how to use tweepy.

Jul 11, 2021 Web Scraping with Python
The internet has created large amounts of unstructured data. Most of it we can access through websites. How can we create structured data accessing information published on websites? Python is a great way to do that. Have a look at some examples, accessing the html source code underlying websites through Python.

Jul 11, 2021 Publish a jupyter notebook as a blogpost on your github pages
We more and more work in Jupyter Notebook. How can we show our codebooks as a blogpost on github pages?

Jun 25, 2021 Relational Database Management Systems and Python - The case of SQL
Often, especially in the case of big data, information is stored in relational database management systems. How can we access information saved in these systems through Python? How can we take advantage of this data structure to extract only the information we really need to be more data-efficient?

Nov 22, 2020 Forecasting with Python - and how Machine Learning can help
Often we need to make predictions about the future. There is an entire art behind the development of future forecasts. Lately, Machine Learning has fed into the art of forecasting. This blog post gives an example of how to build a Forecasting Model in Python.

Aug 8, 2020 Python Basics for Economics - Uploading datasets
Python is a programming language that can be used for a lot of different purposes. Its flexiblity, user-friendliness, as well as easy applicability make it one of the most-used programming languages. But how can we use Python for Data Science exactly? This is an introduction about how to upload datasets.