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Federal Holiday Python Module
I made a python module that, given a date, returns if it’s a federal holiday or not. The package can be downloaded here: pip install git+https://github.com/mmcelhan/federalholiday.git#egg=federalholiday And the source code with testing file is here: https://github.com/mmcelhan/federal_holiday_calendar_source The current Federal holidays are: New Years Day Martin Luther King Day Inauguration Day Washington’s Birthday (aka Presidents Day)…
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Dataframe Fuzzy Matching
Something I’ve run into previously is merging/joining dataframes when the columns don’t exactly match. This was particularly difficult in my college football players data science project (future post for that). College names and people names often varied. For example sometimes you’d see my college as “University of Pittsburgh” in datasets and sometimes it would just…
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YouTube Downloader
I’ve always wanted to have songs or videos off of YouTube but YouTube doesn’t offer anything native to pull things off of the site. They are gracious enough to offer a back end API to pull videos and audio. I created a Graphical Interface to make downloading YouTube Audio and Video easy. The steps are…
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Stock Market Open Python Package
One thing that’s always interested me is automated stock trading (future post on that). I needed to create python code to do much of the work. One aspect of this is knowing if the market is open on a specific date, so I created a python module that given a date returns true of false.…
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Mark’s Books
This is my son Mark: Mark was born in 2021 and is a pretty normal baby. If Mark is anything like his parents, he’ll love books. We decided a great present for him would be a set of books on every birthday (The list of books is at the end of this post). This would…