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Market Data Downloading: Automating the Downloading of Market Data from Bloomber, Reuters, Markit and the Web

Market Data Downloading: Automating the Downloading of Market Data from Bloomber, Reuters, Markit and the Web

A quick-start guide to automating the downloading of market data from leading data vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Markit, and the web.

2018

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Towards Data Science

SQL Explained: Common Table Expressions

What CTEs are and how you use them

8 min readMay 22, 2024

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SQL Explained: Common Table Expressions

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SQL Explained: Normal Forms

Applying 1st, 2nd and 3rd normal forms to a database

10 min readMay 29, 2024

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SQL Explained: Normal Forms

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AI Advances

Creating Interactive AI-Driven Apps

Use Python, Gradio, and Groq to build a “Horrorscope” application

6 min read3 days ago

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Creating Interactive AI-Driven Apps

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Build a MVP version of Google Translate with Groq and Llama3

Translate between different languages using Python, Gradio and and AI

6 min readApr 25, 2024

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Build a MVP version of Google Translate with Groq and Llama3

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LlamaParse RAG beats all-comers

The best PDF parser for RAG implementations I've seen so far

11 min readMar 12, 2024

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Pyspark Tip

Create an empty dataframe with a specified schema

1 min read1 day ago

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Pyspark Tip

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DuckDB V1 released!

If you have a Medium account but are not a paid member you can read this story for FREE using the link below,

2 min read2 days ago

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DuckDB V1 released!

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Level Up Coding

Gradio adds a Chatbox Interface

Now you can easily code your own versions of AI chatboxes

5 min read3 days ago

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Gradio adds a Chatbox Interface

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New Pandas rival, FireDucks, brings the smoke!

Pandas goes head-to-head with a new competitor

10 min read4 days ago

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New Pandas rival, FireDucks, brings the smoke!

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Introducing the Pydantic Library

Or … how to validate your data in Python

7 min readMay 28, 2024

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Introducing the Pydantic Library

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Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid

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A data engineer , specialising in the AWS cloud with particular interest in AI, serverless and the energy, finance and insurance sectors

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