Category Archives: Python

Profiling data with ydata in PySpark

When you got a dataset to explore, there are several ways to do that in PySpark. You can do a describe or a summary. But if you want something a little more advanced, and if you want to get a … Continue reading

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A great time at PyCon Ireland 2024

I think it was last year when I announced that I wanted to go back to conferences again. Preferably as a speaker. But what conference is the best for data engineers? I couldn’t quite figure it out. Then the call … Continue reading

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Using OCR to get data from my Robi scale

How it started For several years I kept track of my weight and fat with a Soehnle Body Balance, which I bought in 2018. That worked quite well until I saw more and more these weird deviations. Take a look … Continue reading

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Showing a gift total on a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display – how hard could it be?

TL;DR: These Python and Raspberry Pi projects. They are fun aren’t they? And often they look deceptively simple. But you don’t see all the projects that failed and usually not where they struggled. This project got stuck (and almost failed) … Continue reading

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Categorising text with ChatGPT. Results may be messy.

I have a hobby project I’m working on. It’s an astronomy news feed reader. Long story short: I currently gather links to interesting articles about astronomy by hand. And I want to automate this, so that I have more time … Continue reading

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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 3): The Strava API

This is part 3 of a series of blogposts on how I created a Strava dashboard on a Inky Impression e-ink display with a Raspberry Pi. OAuth2 This was the part that I expected to be the hard part: getting … Continue reading

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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 2): Installing software

In last blogpost we set up the Raspberry Pi, attached the Inky Impression display and got the Raspberry Pi ready for remote access. Time to get the Inky Impression software installed and make the Inky Impression screen display something. Your … Continue reading

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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 1): Setting up the Raspberry Pi

This is the list of hardware I’ve used: For those who don’t know a Raspberry Pi: this is a very small and quite cheap computer. The Raspberry Pi 3B+ I’ve used for example is about 40 euros. But you can … Continue reading

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Building a Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display

Let’s face it: my purchase of the Pimoroni Inky Impression 5.7 inch display was a solution looking for a problem. I saw a video about it and I was sold on the idea of having an e-ink display on one … Continue reading

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Adding the track of my bike ride on a Folium map

Having markers of videos and photos taken during my bike ride is cool and all, but how about having a track of the bike ride itself? All my bike rides are registered on Strava, the cycling and running app. Strava … Continue reading

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