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[Free] Simple Blogging Analytics Dashboard In Python

Build a small data pipeline in Python by scraping a blog. – Free Course

Added on June 20, 2024 Development 1 min read

What you’ll learn

• Understand the basics of web scraping
• Understand how to setup a manual data pipeline
• Learn how to modularize code into functions
• See how to setup a basic dashboard in Flask

Requirements

• Be able to program using Python
• Understand how web development works

Description

Here is a synopsis of each video:

1. Talks about the project and data pipeline

2. Talks about web scraping basics

3. Shows how to scrape one blog article

4. Shows how to scrape all the blog articles in one category

5. Shows how to scrape all the blog articles in all the categories

6. Shows how to compute basic analytics

7. Shows basic design and front-end development

8. Shows how to setup a Flask sever

9. Shows how to deploy the app to Heroku

10. Explores further improvements to the pipeline

Everything in the project is done manually to show the steps between. I plan to upload a 2nd version that shows how to automate the entire pipeline.