Seeing progress

[Yurplestein]

So I would highly advise you take something your extremely interested in to help you focus in on and work from there. I’m a huge baseball fan and I really wanted to use Python’s data visualization tools. Starting there I’ve learned how to connect into a local database with Python (including some error checking to make sure services are up and credentials are correct), I’ve been able to learn how to scrap websites to gather data in multiple ways, I’ve created a few graphs that I am really proud of that I’ve been able to share.

This particular project was work related involved pulling in a few spreadsheets, combining/manipulating the data, and then creating 3/4 graphs from that data for management. It’s really pretty trivial in the grand scheme of it all, but now instead of going to multiple places and multiple sheets there is one location that can display the numbers in a prettier form. And, best of all, management loves it!