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Missing the Apex: Predicting F1 Races with PythonPyCon US 20252025-05-16
Claim: Python code reproduces a prior paper then improves it by expanding seasons and including every driver. Implementation uses requests BeautifulSoup pandas…
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Using Python to Help the UnhousedPyCon US 20232023-04-19
How a group of volunteers from around the globe use Python to help an NGO in Victoria, BC, Canada to help the unhoused. By building a tool to find social media…
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Distributed Web Scraping in PythonPyCon US 20222022-04-27
Builds a controller + work and result queues feeding many scraper nodes that use requests + BeautifulSoup + Selenium, proxy rotation, random headers and…
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Distributed Web Scraping in PythonPyCascades 20192019-02-23
Builds a Python distributed scraper that cuts a 15,000-page job from about 26 hours to 4–5 hours by running many workers in parallel; uses a two‑phase…
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High Fidelity Web Crawling in PythonPyData Seattle 20172017-06-30
Shows concrete techniques: use Python Requests for simple pages and Selenium + headless browsers (PhantomJS now moving to Chromium) for JavaScript, add logging…
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