Use Generative text AI Models as your free coding Assistant thanks to Tabby. We can use Open Source LLMs, and interact with them locally, using regular CPUs.
Exploring the intersection of Chaos Theory with Python and a Double Pendulum Simulator App. Using Streamlit, physics equations, Docker, and Cloudflare, the app showcases the unpredictable dance of determinism and chaos in a digital realm.
August 1
Interacting with Generative AI Language Models Locally
Explore the capabilities of Generative text AI models. Dive into Open Source LLMs, and learn how to interact with them locally and for FREE. We will use our CPU only and Docker for a robust dependencies setup.
July 2
Generative AI and Prompts: The Learning Revolution
Learn to build a powerful data analytics brand by defining your niche, understanding your audience, crafting a unique value proposition, creating valuable content, and forming strategic partnerships. Establish your expertise and stand out in the competitive world of data-driven decision-making.
Discovering the Open-Meteo Python API to have weather forecasts data insights. Installing the library and preparing plots to include them in the Python Trip Planner Dash App.
Improving Python DASH UI’s: Python Trip Planner with Weather
Self-hosting qBittorrent using Docker (and VPN: Gluetun with Mullvad). Learn how to maintain control, enhance privacy, and boost security in your torrenting activities.
Boosting Productivity - Installing Webtops with Docker
Elevate Your Productivity: Use the Power of Webtops with this simple Docker Installation, enabling seamless workflows and device flexibility for enhanced productivity across diverse platforms and locations.
Kickstart Your Career in Data Analytics: The Ultimate Guide
In-depth guide for anyone interested in starting a career in data analytics. It covers essential skills, the best educational routes, gaining practical experience, and real-world application of data analytics skills. This guide aims to motivate, inform, and guide you on your journey to become a data analyst
May 2
Using Google’s Bard Anywhere: Docker, Firefox and VPN
Using Google BARD Anywhere by installing Firefox in a Docker container and routing its traffic through a VPN. This secure setup enhances your online privacy and data protection, ensuring safer browsing.
The Pareto Principle in Data Analytics (And not Only)
Revolutionize Data Analytics with the 80/20 rule. Application in analytics for decision-making, and tips for leveraging this Principle to prioritize resources effectively. Master the art of identifying the vital few from the trivial many in your data-driven journey.
April 3
Self-hosting Python DASH Apps: with Docker (and Cloudflare Tunnels)
Discovering the differences in the deployment process of a Python DASH App (Trip Planner with Weather): Google Cloud Run vs. using the Docker DASH image of the App together with Cloudflare to deploy it securely from home.
Cycling through Europe - Poland: Krakow to Czestochowa
A bikepacking journey between two historic cities in Poland: Krakow and Czestochowa. Exploring lesser-known marvels: ancient castles, Orlich Gniazd, Ojcowski National Park, and the fascinating B艂臋d贸w Desert.
Trip Planner - Discovering Weather Data Patterns with Python
Are you planning your next adventure but not sure if the weather will be fine? This Python Dash App based on Meteostat API data allows you to explore historical weather data for any location you are planning to visit.
March 4
Discovering Meteostat: Historical Weather API in Python
Using Meteostat Python API to access and display historical weather data in our Apps. Building a Trip Planner App based on historical weather patterns of interesting locations.
Discovering the differences between building Docker images using the Cloud and Local Builds. Comparing the advantages and limitations, such as automation, resource usage, and build times. Example: Python DASH
Github Actions - Building and Pushing Containers with CI/CD
As I plan to make a complete route by bike from Tallin to Athens, I need to see how my fitness level improves over the months, to be ready for the next challenge. Polar and Python are helping me with it.
Home Internet Monitoring: SpeedTrackers with Docker
Rootcausing slow home internet speeds with Docker and couple of free open souce solutions: OpenSpeedTest and SpeedTest-Tracker. Learn how to pinpoint the root cause of connectivity issues, optimize your network, and ensure a faster online experience.
Having a closer look at System Engineering and Infrastructure Management, why it matters for developers, and how it relates to CI/CD tools and processes.
Negotiation is a process of discovery, uncovering information. We need such skills to perform a superb job in analytics. Learn techniques to consider while working with others. Ensure that your requirements are met.
Server Monitoring: Self-Hosting Netdata with Docker
Installing Netdata with Docker, the free open-source monitoring tool that provides real-time insights into system activities with interactive web dashboards.
Installing Grav CMS with Docker is a user-friendly static site generator that offers speed, flexibility, and security advantages over other CMSs. Discover how to build websites that are easy to maintain.
Installing Matrix Server - Synapse with Docker (and Cloudflare).
Installing Matrix Server with Docker (and Cloudflare) - A decentralized messaging platform that provides a secure and privacy-focused alternative to centralized messaging services like Facebook/Whatsapp/Telegram.
Installing Timelite with Docker - Boost your productivity with this time tracking open source tool. Learn how tracking your tasks can improve your focus, planning, and provide actionable insights.
Building a website with Ghost CMS: Pros, Cons, Comparison to WordPress, and How to Install with Docker and Expose Safely to the Internet with Cloudflare Tunnel.
Exposing Services Safely: Cloudflare Zero-Trust Tunnel with Docker
Accessing Your Self Hosted Services WITHOUT Port Forwarding with Cloudflare. Discover the benefits of Cloudflare Zero Tunnel deployed with Docker for securing connections and expose services securely on a global scale.
A journey from Poland to Hungary by bicycle: three countries, across mountains, rivers, and ancient towns. The story, the route in the map and how to track your own routes with Python.
An interactive R Shiny App that revolutionizes the way public financial information is displayed. Built on top of well-known R packages for financial analysis: yfR, QuantMod, PriceR and Quandl.
Exploring the integration of Docker and R Shiny, focusing on reproducibility in software development. Creating a Shiny Docker image for the R Stocks project to simplify deployment and sharing of our interactive data applications.
Data Experiment - Finding a Car and a Bike Operating Costs
If you are wondering how gas price increase is affecting your commuting costs and the comparison with a bycicle - This post is for you, let me explained you what I found out based on this data experiment.
If you have been using SQL and Pandas with Python for a while, you might want to leverage that knowledge by learning PySpark - You will enter to the Big Data domain after you read this post.
Getting started with PySpark
October 17, 2022 路 4 min 路 818 words 路 路 Career 路 Python
If you have been using SQL and Pandas with Python for a while, you might want to leverage that knowledge by learning PySpark - You will enter to the Big Data domain after you read this post.
Talking about Lean and how we can apply this philosophy to all processes to improve efficiency, quality, response time as well as reducing costs and waste.
September 2
Financial data in R - Fundamentals - QuanDL
September 18, 2022 路 2 min 路 215 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical fundamental data on companies, for some project that you want to accomplish - QuanDL is an open source library that helps us with this task (provided the API).
Financial data in R - Dividend and Splits - QuantMod
September 14, 2022 路 2 min 路 219 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical dividends and stock splits for some project that you want to accomplish - QuantMod is an open source library that helps us with this task.
August 2
Financial data in R - FOREX and Inflation - PriceR
August 14, 2022 路 2 min 路 336 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical exchange rates between currencies or check historical inflation data for some project that you want to accomplish - PriceR is an open source library that helps us with this task.
Financial data in R - Stocks Price - yfR
August 7, 2022 路 1 min 路 212 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical stock price on companies, for some project that you want to accomplish - yfR is an open source library that helps us with this task.
Everyone talks about Web3. I was wondering if I could use some knowledge that I got while creating static sites with HUGO and its actually pretty simple. Follow this post and you will get your Web3 ready in 2 hours.
Installin Uptime Kuma - the free and open-source monitoring tool that allows you to monitor the health and performance of your web applications and infrastructure.
Another option to make your HUGO site available to the internet, is to use Github and Github Actions as CI/CD tool that will look for changes in our repository and build and deploy the changes to a free domain.
We already got our HUGO site ready locally. Sharing our great job with the world is possible by using Google Firebase. It has a free tier and you also get a free domain to start with.
Enhance your leadership capabilities and drive team success in the complex field of data analytics. The essential management skills, fostering collaboration, strategic communication, continuous team development, and productive meeting facilitation. Unlock the full potential of your team, and set the stage for innovation and excellence in your data-driven career.
Embracing Product Vision: Delivering Data Products
Discover how you can shape data products and address requirements. Learn the essential questions to collaborate with the product team for successful data-driven projects and maximizing impact.
After selecting a theme for HUGO and exploring its documentation, we might need some further customization to make it look even better. Read me to know the must know tips to enhance your HUGO site.
You might have been using Wordpress or heard about Wordpress. With this tutorial you will learn how to create your website with another open source alternative, HUGO. Which offer a much faster response.
Deploying WordPress with Docker is a simple and efficient way to get your website up and running. With Docker, you can easily install and manage WordPress. An user-friendly platform for creating your website.
February 3
How to check devices connected at Home Internet - WatchYourLAN
You might be looking for some open source monitoring tool for your LAN. In this post I will cover how to install WatchYourLAN in Docker for that purpose.
Chevereto: The Image Hosting Platform You Need to Know About
In this post I show you how to build a simple interactive shiny dashboard and how to deploy it to shinyapps using its free tier. The topic I chose to visualize is inflation and how affects a person wealth.
For a successful career in data analytics, you will need to gain self-awareness and learn about decision making process, habits building and biases. This is a guide will help you understand and apply it to work.
During your career in data anlytics you will be working with different teams and you will be in need of meetings to sync up ideas. Here are some techniques to run and be part of effective meetings.
November 1
How to deploy your Shiny app publically to ShinyApps
Providing that we have a working Shiny Dashboard, we can be interested to expose it to a wider audience instead of just locally. One simple option is to use ShinyApps.io as I cover in this post.
In this post I am summarizing the must know points to level up your career in analytics. Excel at this Business Analytics skills and you will improve your workflow.
In this post I am summarizing the must know points to level up your career in analytics. Excel at this Business Analytics skills and you will improve your workflow.
During your career, you will be having many situations when you will need to understand your client to deliver the best value. This phase is one of the most important to understand.
The best way to use resources to accomplish a particular set of goals and objectives is defined by strategy. We will gather the points that we must consider for better strategy setting.
What you need to know about Solutions evaluations and recommenadtions from the BA view.
How to create and deploy Flexdashboard with R
October 6, 2021 路 3 min 路 548 words 路 路 R 路 Dashboards
Integrating R Flexdashboards with GitHub Pages. Learn how to create interactive data visualizations, host them on GitHub, and share your insights effectively for free.
How to Plan and Monitor the Status of your Project
Been commited to dive into Data Analytics will require that you excel at Time Management techniques. In this post I cover some of the techniques to help you stay on top of your projects.
Google Photos is no longer free. Fortunately there are some open source alternatives to have a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos. Lets deploy with Docker Photoview.
Docker is not the only one. Streamline your workflows, improve security, and enable better resource management in your data-driven applications to enhance your data analytics projects.
The Container Registry Landscape: A Comprehensive Guide
Discovering the world of container registries - one pilar to optimize our development workflow. Comparing popular options like Docker Hub, Quay, GitLab, GitHub, and Google Cloud. Learn their unique features, strengths, and weaknesses.
Enhancing portability across various environments with Docker. Deploy applications efficiently: Learn to create Dockerfiles, build images, run containers, and push images to registries.
Learn to build a powerful data analytics brand by defining your niche, understanding your audience, crafting a unique value proposition, creating valuable content, and forming strategic partnerships. Establish your expertise and stand out in the competitive world of data-driven decision-making.
Data Narratives: the Art of Storytelling in Data Analytics
The art of storytelling in data analytics: transform complex data into engaging narratives. Explore techniques like data visualization, context, and emotion to captivate your audience and drive decision-making. Learn how to create impactful data-driven stories that resonate with your audience.
You might be looking for some alternative to Github or Bitbucket to track your code changes on some project. In this post we will selfhost Gitea with docker for that purpose.
How to setup your MS Project Alternative - Leantime
Whether you are creating the roadmap for some personal project or checking critical path for a team task, you will be in need of a Project Management tool. Leantime is a free open source tool for that purpose.
You might be looking for some alternative to Google search that is less privacy invasive, but at the same time provides with relevant search results. In this post we will selfhost whoogle with docker for that purpose.
In search to improve the efficiency of your team and your projects, you will might need to have a kanbar board to optimize the workflow. Focalboard is an Open Source tool that we can self-host with Docker for this task.
You might be looking for an open source tool that enables Linux/ machines to communicate with Windows machines in a Network. This guide will help you by installing Samba with Docker.
You might be looking for some alternative to Google search that is less privacy invasive, but at the same time provides with relevant search results. In this post we will selfhost whoogle with docker for that purpose.
Setting up and configuring Nginx for use in your own projects. Exposing services easily and securely with NGINX and get automatic https certificates with letsencrypt.
Reviewing software development methodologies - Understanding them and choosing the right one will provide a systematic, efficient, and quality-oriented way of working on a software project.
Deploying Containers without the Terminal - Portainer
When starting your self-hosting journey you might be not 100% confident with the terminal. By installing Portainer - you will have a tool to manage containers with a graphical interface.
2020 8
November 4
A/B Testing Meets Data Analytics: Revolutionize Your Optimization Strategy
Explore the intersection of A/B testing and data analytics to elevate your optimization efforts. Learn how to integrate advanced data analysis techniques, uncover valuable insights, and make informed decisions that drive conversions, enhance user experience, and boost your online success.
Demystifying ROC Curves: Mastering Classifier Performance in ML
Discover the secrets of ROC curves and learn how to evaluate and optimize binary classification models in machine learning. Gain insights into true positive rates, false positive rates, and the ideal balance for your specific problem, ultimately enhancing your classifier performance.
First Steps in ML for Data Analytics
November 25, 2020 路 8 min 路 1549 words 路 路 Python 路 Career
I wanted to summarize the most important ML concepts to work as a data analyst.Even if you will not be performing Data Science tasks, this knowledge will be of great help when collaborating with them. Understand their language.
The essential concepts of data modeling and key terms in this introductory course for effective data analytics and informed decision-making. Learn how to structure and represent data efficiently to unlock valuable insights and optimize your analytical capabilities.
PiHole is a free open source tool that we can selfhost with docker to block ad domains, so that they wont appear in any device connected to our router. Here is the guide.
As part of your Data Analytics journey, you will have to build knowledge of Python. In this post I am collecting some of the must know tricks to start your projects.
I have been compiling the most recurrent SQL queries that you will require in your first job as a data analyst. Master these and you will make a great progress with your analytical skills.