Category Archives: Web

Geolocation with Google API’s & Python – mapping addresses to GPS coordinates

Posted on January 19, 2019 by swdevperestroika

Google does some pretty impressive things – not just all the web-based search stuff, but they also have lot’s and lot’s of really cool API’s for programmers to peruse. In order to access these API’s, you need a personal authorization … Continue reading →

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Vasaloppet 2018 – race time analysis

Posted on January 10, 2019 by swdevperestroika

An analysis of race times for the ~11000 men and ~2000 women that participated in 2018 Vasaloppet. For explanations of the graphs, see earlier posts on Marcialonga or Tour de Ski. [Btw, the weird looking vertical orange/blue “spike” in the … Continue reading →

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Ugly soup with Python, requests & Beautiful Soup

Posted on January 3, 2019 by swdevperestroika

Web scraping has never been a coveted nor favorite discipline of mine; in fact, for me web scraping is an unfortunate, but sometimes necessary evil. Scraping web-pages, at least for me, is a very unstructured process, basically pure Trial & … Continue reading →

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