Improve your consulting skillset and learn how to prepare a state-of-the-art management presentation in PowerPoint — Throughout my 15+ years within the consulting business, I have met many great mentors that have taught me how to create compelling presentations. On the contrary, I have also met many coworkers and clients who struggle to formulate and convey their messages appropriately via a professional slide deck. …

A step by step guide for beginners and experts — If you want to get started as a crypto investor and you want to take matters into your own hands, it is important that you are able to programmatically connect to a digital currency exchange such as Coinbase Pro. This is the first step to start data analysis and automation…

A step by step guide to one dimensional convolutional neural networks — Introduction Many articles focus on two dimensional convolutional neural networks. They are particularly used for image recognition problems. 1D CNNs are covered to some extend, e.g. for natural language processing (NLP). Few articles provide an explanatory walkthrough on how to construct a 1D CNN though for other machine learning problems that…

Learn how to connect to your Jira instance and download the data for advanced analytical processing in Python. — Jira is a great tool for agile project management and collaboration. It has a wealth of built-in reporting capabilities and it becomes even more powerful with various plugins. Nevertheless, there are certain situations where you want your Jira data to be available locally or in another system. For those cases…

A quick-start guide that explains how to authenticate with your Coinbase account via their Cloud API. — The new Coinbase Cloud API is a great way to automate your crypto trading. Before you can do so, you need to understand how to establish a secure connection to access your Coinbase account data using your private API key. Since Coinbase does not provide an end-to-end example in Python…

Forget about costly Wordpress plugins - learn how to migrate large amounts of Wordpress data for free with a very simple Python script. — Problem Statement I recently faced the challenge of migrating a Wordpress website from an existing hosting provider to a newly created Google Cloud instance. So we are roughly talking about 20,000 images and over a 1,500 blog posts and pages. There were a few things that stood in the way though: The…

A quick-start guide to use the public Coinbase API to analyze and visualize advanced cryptocurrency data. — Coinbase has recently released their new cloud developer API. The API allows you to conveniently access key features needed for algorithmic trading. It will replace the former Coinbase Pro API which will be phased out soon. In this article, you will learn the following: How to connect to the Coinbase…

Learn how to create a meaningful slide deck by implementing a few simple tips. — All of us, at one point of our career, need to present our ideas to a wider audience. The traditional slide deck is still the most popular way to inform or persuade your audience. …

Connect to the Coinbase Pro API and add your own SMA, EMA, MACD, ATR indicators for better investment decision making — Ready to learn something new? Are you looking for a small side project? Then why not start your own data science project for crypto investing? Crypto currencies are a great way to experiment with different technologies. In this article, we will cover the following: How to connect to the Coinbase…