Tag Archives: python
Slides from Rocky Mtn SABR Meeting
Last Saturday I had the good fortune to present a talk on finding, gathering, and analyzing some sports-related data on the web at the local SABR group meeting. In case you’re not familiar with the “SABR” acronym, it stands for … Continue reading
Filed under Data Mining, Data Science, ggplot2, R, Scraping Data, Sports
Using XML package vs. BeautifulSoup
A while back I posted something about scraping a webpage using the BeautifulSoup module in Python. One of the comments to that post was by Larry — a blogger over at IEORTools — suggesting that I take a look at … Continue reading
Apologies and Style Guides
I have to say that it’s pretty exciting to watch your blog go from a few hits over its lifetime to getting almost 200 in a single day. I am currently negotiating with Google over the purchase of this blog. … Continue reading
Scrapin’ with Python
Here is the code that I used for the previous post. A few notes: I know a little about Python, but I’m in no means a python programmer. I’ve attempted to use BeautifulSoup once prior to this project. There must … Continue reading
