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This is a little intro to using an LSTM model for time series data. It's not in any way a thorough introduction to how LSTMs work, which is pretty complex and far too much info for a short blog like this one... I'm going to demonstrate it using some financial (stock market) data, where I'll …
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The UK parliament has a bunch of different committees who are tasked with conducting inquiries and producing reports about a range of different topics. The individual inquiries normally have a fixed duration and they hear evidence from a range of individuals known as witnesses. The UK parliament website maintains a list of open inquiries that …
This is the second part of a series of posts about my pet data science project exploring the availability of transport across different areas of Manchester. For those playing catch-up, you might want to take a look at the first post in this series before continuing. In the first post I looked at how to …
I've started a little project to look at availability of public transport across Manchester. To keep things easy to follow I'm going to split up the different elements of the project between blog posts. First off, I want to know all the bus routes in Greater Manchester and I want to know which ones go …
This is great for freaking people out. It looks like a ghost is typing in your web browser. Web crawling using html parsers to grab links and navigate to new pages with the requests library is all very well, but when you want to physically submit search terms, or login details, or click buttons (etc.) …
A while ago I wrote a blog post about how to scrape videos from YouTube. One question I've been asked since is how to navigate between different pages of search results. So here's how. YouTube The pre-amble looks exactly the same: Pagination Then we need to find the piece of html that corresponds to …
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Research funding in the UK is very transparent. In fact you can access details of every RCUK (Research Councils UK) funded project through their online gateway. Like a lot of UK government data the content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated. The Newton Fund is part of the UK's …
Web crawling and web scraping are two sides of the same coin. Web scraping is simply extracting information from the internet in an automated fashion. Web crawling is about indexing information on webpages and - normally - using it to access other webpages where the thing you actually want to scrape is located. YouTube is …
Stars spin - and the rate at which they spin has a profound affect on their health. So measuring the rotation of different types of stars is an important pass-time for astronomers who like that kind of thing (i.e. stars). Fortunately stellar rotation is something that can even be measured directly from their time dependent …
Last week I gave an introductory lecture on imaging with radio interferometers. I started off with a Python demonstration of Fourier filtering using cat pictures, which seemed pretty popular and lead to one of my fellow lecturers coining the term "Furrier Cats" (this is genius and I wish I'd thought of it). Since it was …
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