My name is Russell Helmstedter. I am a middle school math and computer science teacher at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts (DATA). My first exposure to Python was in March of 2020. For some reason, I was stuck at home and couldn’t go out and do things. I decided to learn how… Continue reading Automating the Boring Stuff and Plotting Student Data
Articles on JSON
Case study: How to parse nested JSON
By Michael Aydinbas on 3 June 2022
I was asked to help parse a JSON file that is delivered by the iTunes Store Customer Reviews API JSON endpoint. It is not so important how this API works or if there are better APIs for this. Instead, let’s assume that we found our favorite API to work with and that our request makes… Continue reading Case study: How to parse nested JSON
PyBites Twitter Digest – Issue 35, 2018
By PyBites Team on 4 November 2018
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Code Challenge 55 – #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator – Review
By PyBites Team on 23 October 2018
In this article we review last week’s #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator code challenge.
Data Analysis of Pybites Community Branch Activity
By Martin Uribe on 18 October 2018
I wanted to play around with a dataset and see what I could find out about it. I decided on analyzing the little bit of data that I could collect from Github without having to use an OAuth key, which limits it to just 300 events. If you want to follow along with my notebook check out the instructions here. This notebook was my submission for Code Challenge 47 – PyBites First Year in Data (Special).
Code Challenge 55 – #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator
By PyBites Team on 16 October 2018
Hi Pythonistas, Welcome to Pybites Code Challenge 55! In this challenge we’re asking that you create your own #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator.
Twitter digest 2017 week 24
By PyBites Team on 18 June 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Next Time I Will Use Pandas to Parse Html Tables
By Bob Belderbos on 8 June 2017
Last week I did some html table parsing with BeautifulSoup and regex. It turns out there is an easier way to do this: Pandas.
Twitter digest 2017 week 22
By PyBites Team on 4 June 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
How to Parse Common Data Formats in Python
By PyBites Team on 16 May 2017
In this post we demonstrate ways in which you can parse common data formats used in Python.