Followers and YouTube subscribers don’t matter. Here’s how you can make a living blogging despite the number of followers you have. — I can’t count how many times I’ve heard these two phrases. Don’t forget to subscribe, hit the notification bell, and … Follow me and I follow you back The first is something I almost never say, while I never did the second even on my first day creating online content.

Spend a weekend building a bot that will help you save thousands of hours. — One of the coolest applications Python has is automation. With Python, we can create simple yet powerful automation that can help us simplify the most tedious tasks we have. Things get better when those tedious tasks are part of our everyday life. Instead of doing these tasks manually, you can…

Machine learning algorithms explained in plain English — Machine learning is one of those fields that anyone learning data science should know. If you’re new to data science, you probably must’ve heard of the words “algorithm” or “model” without knowing how they’re related to machine learning. Machine learning algorithms are categorized as supervised or unsupervised. Supervised learning algorithms…

Automate boring emails with Python — Do you know what most office jobs have in common? In most of them, you have to send emails regularly. It doesn't matter if you’re a programmer, data scientist, or engineer, chances are you have to read and respond to emails on a daily basis. This activity doesn’t add any…

Here are 3 tools that are better than Excel, VBA, and Power Query — If you’re an advanced Excel user probably you’ve used VBA to create macros and automate repetitive tasks or used Power Query to clean and transform data. They’re good tools, but when it comes to creating custom automation and working with large data at a fast speed, Microsoft Excel isn’t enough. …

A guide to creating spreadsheets and saving data to Google Sheets with Python. — Did you know Google Sheets can be used as a lightweight database? Google Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet application that can store data in a structured way just like most database management systems. You can also edit and delete data with a couple of clicks and, on top of that…

No code completion, inspections, or error highlighting. What can go wrong? — There was a time when I didn’t use an IDE to write code at all. Back then, I didn’t know the difference between a text editor and an IDE, so I just downloaded the program used in the tutorials I watched and stuck to it for some time. In those…

Here’s how AI-centric vector databases are gaining their place in modern software stacks. — The internet contains a huge amount of data in different forms. In the past, this data was mostly structured, but as the internet grew, unstructured data such as photos, audio, text, and video files became more common. Analysts estimate that 80-90% of any organization’s data is unstructured, so how can…

Never reveal secret keys in your Python scripts again — After making many Python tutorials I realized how important is to hide any secret key we have in our script. Believe me, you don’t want your colleagues or anyone you share your Python script with to see what’s your API key or account password. They should remain hidden! In this…