If you want to see the live websites, visit this page. For live stats, visit this page. I am not going to iterate line by line about how to write the code, if you want it, check this Github repo. I have also added all the news collected in the past 3–4 days.

I wanted to keep track of the latest updates about the contagious Coronavirus outbreak. Scrolling through social media was one option but given the amount of fake news and clickbaits that circulates in social media these days, I prefer consuming news from reliable news portals. The problem…

In this article, we will learn the basics of using a web API. We will use Python and Flask to create a simple backend that calls Openweathermap API and render the result in a web page.

If you want to skip the article and access code, head over to the GitHub repo.

Get API Key

Goto https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up and sign up for a free plan if you haven’t already. Then visit the API key section https://home.openweathermap.org/api_keys to get your key. You can use the default key or generate a new one as you wish. …

Who are Digital Nomads?

In simple terms, someone who works from anywhere in the world with a laptop, mobile phone and a good internet connection. Digital Nomad has been the buzz word coming into 2019. Quitting your 9–5 job, going on a trip, working from a cafe somewhere in a foreign land, sounds wonderful right? With the increasing trend among tech companies to hire remotely and create a distributed team allover the world, it has become easier than ever to become a digital nomad. And let’s not forget working as a freelance contractor, getting projects from platforms like upwork and toptal.

Remote workers have…

Web Scraping is basically a process of extracting data from website using some scripts or automation tool/software. There are a ton of websites in the internet with a lot of data. If you are wondering what might be a good way to start with, here are some of the cool web scraping project ideas that you can implement.

1. Price Monitoring

Price monitoring is a very common yet useful technique that you can use to automate the process of checking prices on various websites. For e.g. you want to buy a laptop but you are waiting for the price to drop that is…

Data Science Pipeline

• Getting the data (covered in this post)
• Data Cleaning
• Exploring/ Visualizing data
• Modeling the data
• Interpreting the results

One of the common problems that almost every data scientist faces is collecting data. While there are a lot of websites where you can find datasets as mentioned in this post, it’s always not enough. Sometimes building your own dataset is the way to go. And web on the other hand, although messy is a massive source of data, we just need to know how to mine it efficiently. …

I wrote a crawler to scrape the news headlines from CNET’s sitemap and decided to perform some exploratory analysis on it. In this post, I will walk you through my findings, some anomalies and some interesting insights. You can find the code here if you want to jump into it directly.

Crawler

The crawler is written using Scrapy, an open source web crawling framework written in Python. There is an option to dump the data into a csv or a json file with a minor change in command. You can find the code and command in my GitHub repo. …

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

- Mark Twain

Another week has passed and it seems like Winter has finally arrived. It has been a fun week and I am loving it here at YoungInnovations.

Workshop at Oxfam

Last Tuesday Bibhusan Bista (bibhusan) and Sanjeena Parajuli (Sunxena) attended a workshop on Platform Innovation for Women’s Transformation Co-creation and Ideas Group Meeting. The workshop was organised by Oxfam in partnership with Accenture, Nepal Innovation Lab and Barefoot College. The collective challenge aims to address : “How to enable large numbers of women living in poverty to develop their skills, access resources and…