2 posts tagged with "Web Scraping"

Automating away those unceasing repetitive tasks the easy way

The Task At Hand​

Being the avid runner and data lover that I am, naturally, I like to get the best out of logging my training. The solution I settled with a few years back was to log my training on both Strava, and Attackpoint. While both platforms provide a service for tracking exercise using GPS data, Strava has an emphasis on being a social network and it allows you to look into each activity in an in-depth way, something that Attackpoint lacks; Attackpoint on the other hand is more barebone and I personally prefer it for looking at my training as a whole (in timescales of weeks/months/years).

The journey to my first ‘full-stack’ data science project — a practical guide to web scraping

I’ve had my fun playing around with all the ‘classic’ ML datasets (the likes of MNIST, Titanic, Iris, etc.) and I decided it's time to start something of my own. The main reason being that I simply want something different. It all felt somewhat artificial, I want something new and challenging. Something that is not served to me on a silver platter.

I spend a good while mulling over possible projects and came up with a few possible avenues, one of which I will go over in this post. To help get more out of the experience, I thought I would blog my journey.