Tag Archives: Python

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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Using Stable Diffusion to create images for a presentation

Have you heard about text-to-image models like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and MidJourney? These are AI algorithms that take in text (the “prompt”) that describes what kind of picture you want as input and as output the algorithm creates that … 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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Photo locations, marker icons and displaying photos on my map

When I was finished last week with creating my video location map in Python, I thought “shame I can’t plot photo locations”. That’s because my Fuji X-T30 camera doesn’t store GPS info. When I bought the camera I assumed every … Continue reading

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Handling far future dates in pandas

Recently I got the request to add specific data quality metadata with csv datasets that my client delivers to customers. It was very simple. Just counts, min, max and -in case of integers – sums per attribute. Not a difficult … Continue reading

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Tech dossier: pandas

I’m keeping tech dossiers in Evernote on open source products I want to keep track of.  And I decided to put them on my blog. My previous ones were on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch. This one is on the Python data … Continue reading

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