Syncing your different gmail accounts for email, calendar, and contacts

Nowadays, many people have multiple email platforms, and it is difficult to keep up with them all. I recently added a company email on G Suite, and wanted to sync this with my personal gmail account, which houses all my emails, calendar appointments, and contacts. With all these email platforms, I will show you how…

How to Redirect Your Website from www to Non-www

Nowadays, it is redundant and unwieldy to include www in your website address, as most websites are going without www in their URL, also known as the naked domain or non-www. It just looks and sounds more concise and clean to just remove the www entirely from the website address. I build dynamic websites on…

How to Recover Social Media Share Counts when Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS

I recently transitioned my website, DepressionBoss.com, from HTTP to HTTPS. When I completed that migration to a more secure website, all my social media counts were reset to zero! When migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, the migrated website is considered a new URL, and therefore all the HTTP social media counts are not migrated over…

Nova Scotia Air Pollution Analysis- Interactive Dashboard

Here is an interactive dashboard I built, which helps people in Nova Scotia to determine their exposure to air pollutants, with just one click. This dashboard makes use of the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal, from which the air pollution datasets were obtained. A data warehouse in Oracle was built to extract, transform, and load…

Nova Scotia Surgical Wait Times App

Here is an app I built, which helps patients in Nova Scotia to determine their real wait times for surgical procedures, with just one click. The app makes use of the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal, from which the surgical wait times dataset was obtained. Multiple linear regression was utilized to build the prediction model…

Exploding a list into a nested list array, and then into a multidimensional array in PHP

Today, I show you how to convert (explode) a list, in this case a list of authors, first and last names separated by a comma, into a nested list array, and then iterate through the nested list array and convert (explode) into a multidimensional array:     Exploding a list   <?php $AUTHOR_NAMES = “Carlo…

Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Enormous Email Data

In this project, I will retrieve a large email data set from the web, and then I will place it into a database. I will then analyze and clean up the email data so that it can be visualized. I will run the Python script gmane.py to retrieve the email data, then will place the…

Google Geocoding API with a Database and Visualization on Google Maps

Today I will use the Google Geocoding API with a database, and visualize the mapping data on Google Maps. In this project, I have a list of university names with no location information, and I will proceed to add location coordinates to the universities using the Google Geocoding API, load those university names with location…

Webcrawl and Pagerank of a Website

Today, I will demonstrate a webcrawl and pagerank of a website. For the parser, I’m using a python code, spider.py, which incorporates BeautifulSoup, a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. I’ll limit the amount of pages to crawl to 100, and will crawl the website AnxietyBoss.com, a leading website for anxiety,…

A Tour of Data Science Educational Programs

In my quest to become a data scientist, I have embarked on a series of educational journeys, which have included both formal, in-school, educational forums and self-learning, self-paced MOOCS (massive open online courses). Let me start at the beginning of my path to getting an education and training in data science. Business Intelligence Analytics Advanced…