This is like a data collection step for a much bigger problem. You might want to do some form of analysis of the stories being posted on HackerNews or see which user has received the most upvotes in the past year. To do anything like that, we need the dat... (more…)

The challenge In an N by N square grid, each cell is either empty (0) or blocked (1). A clear path from top-left to bottom-right has length k if and only if it is composed of cells C_1, C_2, ..., C_k such that: Adjacent cells C_i and C_{i+1} are connected... (more…)

I started using Python for data science about a year ago. On day one, I spent the first four hours figuring out how to access Python. It… (more…)

The Python Software Foundation has funding available for designing, developing and deploying organization accounts in PyPI. PyPI is the off... (more…)

A comprehensive tutorial for getting started with Tesseract and OpenCV for OCR in Python: preprocessing, deep learning OCR, text extraction and limitations. (more…)