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The next chapter (chapter 11) of Algorithms for Dummies is all about web search which predictably means Google. We’re still in the graphs section of the book because you can think of the web as an interconnecting series of nodes and edges/arcs, just like social graphs. The nodes would be the web pages (or maybe…
I have worked with API a little bit when I needed to pull file/folder information in Dropbox or needed to push data into QuickBase, but those efforts involved using VBA to do the work. They have involved a bit of work trying to figure out how to make the connections work and usually I have…
The next chapter (Chapter 10) in Algorithms for Dummies is actually very short because it does not go into much mechanical or technical details in parsing social network graphs due to the complexity of working with myriad connections. I would imagine juggling with large datasets and interconnecting relationships just makes things messier and harder to…
I love using Pivot tables in Excel because they can make gathering, slicing and dicing data so much easier; however, I probably don’t like them as a data source. This post will kind of explain why using a data source laid out in a “pivot table” fashion may not be the best way to pull…
Lately, when I pull coronavirus data from Wikipedia, I noticed that data are coming in later in the day, so I do most of my updates after 9 pm to try to get the latest data. Maybe people are now backed up with work or just tired of keeping track. The latest data though are…
Every time WordPress does its update on its Block Editor, I have to experiment with various plug ins activated or deactivated to be able to do a new post because something always come up broken. Sometimes I’ll be able to get the Gutenberg block editor and other times I can’t. Today is one of those…