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Data: A Gift that Keeps Giving

As part of my data journey, I’m learning to scrape. And so I’m looking for small pieces of data in the usual forms to work on first. That being said, I decided to scrape a csv file of UK Ministerial Gifts received in Cabinet Office 2009-10. For all you novices out there, csv is a … Continue Reading →

Ode to a Piece of Code

Here is my first piece of Python code (that isn’t messing about in my command line). Well, it’s the first piece that does something with something on the web. That thing being the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Seeing as his works now come in the html edition, all the words he ever writ is now … Continue Reading →