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…

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…

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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…

Understand the common challenges when migrating data to MongoDB Realm and how to overcome them — Importing legacy data to MongoDB Realm can be painful if done for the first time. Standard MongoDB import mechanisms will not work out of the box. This article will shed some light into the common pitfalls and how to overcome them. Disclaimer: Every data migration consists of the three ETL…

Amazon’s AWS Simple Email Service (SES) is a game-changer for email marketing — Are you using Mailchimp for your email marketing activities? Maybe you are annoyed by the hefty price tag that Mailchimp charges? If you are, why not completely removed Mailchimp from your email marketing equation? We recently replaced Mailchimp with AWS SES. …

A step by step guide on how to authenticate users in MongoDB Realm — Whether you are migrating from Realm to MongoDB Realm or starting fresh with MongoDB Realm, you might wonder: What is the easiest way to authenticate users? While MongoDB Realm offers a built-in authentication mechanism, I personally prefer to use Google’s Firebase authentication method. It is pretty simple to integrate Firebase…