Affiliate programs are amazing. All you have to do is point people to someone else’s amazing product and bam, you get a share of the cut. Many sites have affiliate programs, more than you would probably think. One of the behemoths in this space? Amazon. …

Extracting meaning from unstructured data is a difficult thing to do. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, there are telling characteristics about the data that provide an interesting angle into the text. One angle is web addresses. …

Doing data analysis can be fun and rewarding. It’s something I do a lot of in my free time. Without the right tools though, it can be frustrating and extremely time consuming. I break down the process of working with data into 4 steps. Data gathering: Finding and getting the…

I recently moved from Boston to San Francisco. In the months leading up to the move, I scoured mailing lists and craigslist to find cheap apartments. The prices listed were astronomically high. It was common for me to see apartments listed for around $1000 to share a room in an…

Integrating Devise’s Google Omniauth into Rails and then utilizing that to access Google APIs seems like something that should be straightforward. Unfortunately, this task is surprisingly difficult as not all the pieces fit together perfectly, and the documentation to do it, is spread across the Internet in forums, Github Issues…