Google Analytics Analytics with Python
Google Analytics is a powerful analytics tool found in an astonishing number of websites. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how to access the Google Analytics API (v4) with Python and Pandas. Additionally, we will take a look at the various ways to analyze your tracking data and create custom reports.
How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu
Apache Airflow is a powerfull workflow management system which you can use to automate and manage complex Extract Transform Load (ETL) pipelines. In this tutorial you will see how to integrate Airflow with the systemd system and service manager which is available on most Linux systems to help you with monitoring and restarting Airflow on failure.
How to Create Your Data Science Blog with Pelican and Jupyter Notebooks
Writing articles and tutorials are a great way to learn new things in depth while building a portfolio. In this tutorial, you will find the first steps that you will need to start your data science blog with Pelican and Jupyter Notebooks.
How to Execute Shell Commands with Python
Python is a wonderful language for scripting and automating workflows and it is packed with useful tools out of the box with the Python Standard Library. A common thing to do, especially for a sysadmin, is to execute shell commands. But what usually will end up in a bash or batch file, can be also done in Python. You’ll learn here how to do just that with the os and subprocess modules.
Installing and Running Jupyter on a Server
Jupyter Notebook is a powerful tool, but how can you use it in all its glory on a server? In this tutorial you will see how to set up Jupyter notebook on a server like Digital Ocean, AWS or most other hosting provider available. Additionally, you will see how to use Jupyter notebooks over SSH tunneling or SSL with with Let’s Encrypt.
Using Virtual Environments in Jupyter Notebook and Python
Are you working with Jupyter Notebook and Python? Do you also want to benefit from virtual environments? In this tutorial you will see how to do just that with Anaconda or Virtualenv/venv.
Analyzing Your File System and Folder Structures with Python
Say you have an external hard drive with layers upon layers of cryptically named folders and intricate mazes of directories (like here, or here). How can you make sense of this mess? Python offers various tools in the Python standard library to deal with your file system and the folderstats module can be of additional help to gain insights into your file system.
File and Directory Comparisons with Python
The Python standard library offers a powerful set of tools out of the box including file system handling. In this quick little article you’ll see a couple of useful recipes to compare files and directories with the filecmp module.
Object Serialization with Pickle and JSON in Python
This is a quick little overview on how to use pickle and JSON for object serialization in Python with the Python standard library.
Local Testing Server with Python
This quick little tutorial shows how to setup a simple local testing server with Python.