Want to include a data summary as quick reference in your Jupyter notebooks ? I used to have summarytools package in R to do this. I miss that one when I’m doing python projects. So I developed a similar python function with some additional widgets. Please check out this post if you are interested.
sharing a range of packages and tips to build a reproduciable analysis presentation in R markdown
R users have been complaining about the package version control for a long time. We admire python users, who can use simple commands to save and restore the packages with correct versions. The good news is that, RStudio recently introduced renv package to manage the local dependency and environment, filling the gap between R and python. renv resembles the conda / virtualenv concept in python.
In this post, I’m using selenium to demonstrate how to web scrape a JavaScript enabled page. If you had some experience of using python for web scraping, you probably already heard of beautifulsoup and urllib. By using the following code, we will be able to see the HTML and then use HTML tags to extract the desired elements. However, if the web page embedded with JavaScript, you will notice that some of the HTML elements can’t be seen from beautiful soup, because they are render by the JavaS...
Developing an extendable file structure to build the unified shiny portal.