Using Python and the mindee API to automate expense reports — It used to be that employees had to file expense reports by hand, or at least draft them on a spreadsheet. Then computers came along, with built-in spreadsheets that made it easier to generate and track reports. …

Simple tips to guide your data science workflow — When working on a data science project, I like to have a few ground rules for how I am going to write the code for my project. By having a few simple principles, I am always sure that the code I will write can stand a minimum quality threshold. In…

Using the newly released Notion API and Streamlit to build a simple project tracker dashboard — With the recent release of the very much anticipated beta version of the Notion API, a lot of integrations between apps are now possible, and an entire universe of possibilities is now open for data science projects. In this post, I will show you how to build a simple…

A tagging system to organize your notes — Note Taking Systems and Tags Effective note-taking systems are a must for those interested in productive knowledge management systems. From Zetellkasten to the PARA system, there are many great options out there. I am periodically looking to improve my pipeline of knowledge management, and, upon testing multiple systems for note taking, I realized the…

A quick tutorial on the fastest way of transcribing your videos using Python — OpenAI recently announced the release of Whisper, an extremely powerful and open-source model that can do highly robust speech recognition. I was excited to try it out, and was particularly delighted with the ease of use and astonishing results! In this article, I will show you how to transcribe audio…

Quick introduction to text-to-image generation using Hugging Face’s diffusers package — In this article, I will show you how to get started with text-to-image generation with stable diffusion models using Hugging Face’s diffusers package. From DALLE to Stable Diffusion A while back I got access to the DALLE-2 model by OpenAI, which allows you to create stunning images from text. So, I started to play around…

Finding good car deals with Python, web scraping, and Jupyter Notebooks — Buying a car can be a troublesome activity. You need to constantly look up dealerships' websites to dig for good deals. Usually, people spend a few months doing this before reaching a decision on which car to buy. In this article, I will show you how to set up a…

Exporting and visualizing your data from Jira using Python — My current company uses a scrum system and the Jira software, which means keeping track of story points, issues, epics, and more. Although Jira provides a tone of features for visualizing your data, I wanted to see if I could plot my story points along different epics. …

From objects to behaviors with OOP using Python — How to manage complex programs with a bunch of data to manipulate, and a bunch of things to do?