Published in David Moore·Jun 17Building an environmental monitoring system from scratchFrom nuts and bolts to heads up display with real time analytics I built an entire end to end Home Monitoring system from scratch. Better still I made 16 videos on YouTube as a series and explained everything. The following articles are associated with the project How I Built…Io T2 min read
Published in Python in Plain English·Jun 17Resolving My Extensive Reading ListPart IV: Cleaning and closing whilst drinking my coffee — Whilst I drank the morning coffee, my computer worked for me! My little helper automation cleaned up my extensive reading list for me. I certainly don’t feel like my laptop replaced me; instead, it assisted me in doing a horrid chore. I believe advances in AI and automation are natural…Automation6 min read
Published in David Moore·Jun 16Creating an NLP web applicationFrom scratch and doing it all on my own I have done many side projects, but the ones I love the most are building web applications from scratch. So here is my story behind building a prototype application called justresumes.net.Startup2 min read
Published in David Moore·Jun 16Automating a simple taskCleaning up an extensive reading list using Python I recently wrote a series of articles where I discussed an ad-hoc method I used to perform an analysis and clean up a reading list here on Medium. …Selenium2 min read
Published in Python in Plain English·Jun 15Resolving My Extensive Reading ListPart III: Exploratory Data Analysis using Python — I have 853 stories on my medium reading list, down from 956 after removing unavailable articles. Part I and II of this series discussed cycling through my reading list on Medium and grabbing some data for analysis. I explained how to clean the list by removing deleted articles in Part…Python6 min read
Published in Python in Plain English·Jun 14Resolving My Extensive Reading ListPart II: Cleaning up removed articles from my list — I recently went to see Top Gun Maverick, a film that appears to have been more than a decade in the making. I enjoyed it!. Earlier in June 2022, I wrote about my extensive reading list here on Medium and started to explore ways to extract the value from the…Python 34 min read
Published in Python in Plain English·Jun 9Resolving My Extensive Reading ListPart 1: Getting started — Using automation with Python — If you are anything like me, you see what looks like an exciting piece, and you add it to a reading list. But, come on, let’s be honest, do you ever actually read those articles and clear the list? Or does it just grow and grow? In my case, it…Python 35 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·May 2Analysing web visitorsUsing code and the low code Mito approach to Exploratory Data Analysis — The beauty of a hybrid approach is offering different methods depending on the circumstances. Python Pandas could be seen as the petrol or diesel engine; an electric car could be seen as a complete no-code solution. We know the coding limitations with Pandas but are we comfortable with the trade-offs…Data Science6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Mar 7Monitoring to protect dataHow do you monitor what is happening to your deployed model? — Every time someone visits a site or makes an API call, an entry is recorded in a log file somewhere on the operating system. If not, there really ought to be one! Reading and processing those log files is essential to understanding who and what is being done by good…NLP6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Feb 28Background tasks for NLPHeavy lifting is better in the background rather than in the client-side, server-side dance — Those people dancing in the photo are similar to web applications and their backend servers. They need to keep up with their timing. Otherwise, the interactions get out of step and eventually, one has to stop and wait for the other. Heavy CPU-intensive NLP tasks or steps in the middle…Privacy8 min read
