I’m here today to give you an example how you can too use web scraping to gain insights from online available data. I’m gonna be using Scrapy the web scraping framework to scrape football stats... (more…)

Build animated charts in Jupyter Notebook and similar environments with a simple Python syntax. - vizzuhq/ipyvizzu... (more…)

Many Python developers are unaware of the extent to which you can use functional programming in Python, which is a shame: with few exceptions, functional programming allows you to write more concise and efficient code. Moreover, Python’s support for funct... (more…)

Laurie describes how to build your own pitch control module in python and demonstrates how it can be used to evaluate a player's passing options using tracki... (more…)

The sheer size of the Python package management ecosystem can be daunting not only to beginners, but also to Python veterans as the number of available package managers seems to be ever-increasing. Should you go with the default pip and its requirements.t... (more…)