Simple Blogging Analytics Dashboard in Python
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Understand the basics of web scraping -
Understand how to setup a manual data pipeline -
Learn how to modularize code into functions -
See how to setup a basic dashboard in Flask
- Be able to program using Python
- Understand how web development works
This video series will walk through building a simple blogging analytics dashboard in Python.
Here is a synopsis of each video:
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Talks about the project and data pipeline
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Talks about web scraping basics
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Shows how to scrape one blog article
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Shows how to scrape all the blog articles in one category
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Shows how to scrape all the blog articles in all the categories
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Shows how to compute basic analytics
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Shows basic design and front-end development
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Shows how to setup a Flask sever
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Shows how to deploy the app to Heroku
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Explores further improvements to the pipeline
Everything in the project is done manually to show the steps between. I plan to upload a 2nd version that shows how to automate the entire pipeline.
- Beginner to advanced software developers interested in data engineering