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Introduction First, let me start by saying that I love Ghost. While this site isn’t built on it since it doesn’t quite align with my goals here, Ghost has been a perfect fit for several other projects I’ve worked on. After running smoothly for over two years, I decided it was time to apply a major upgrade and take advantage of all the new features ghost has to offer. However, there was a catch—my current database wasn’t supported, and as it turns out, upgrading from MySQL 5 to 8 can be tricky under certain circumstances....

Introduction Let’s answer the burning question: What will we build? In this many part tutorial, we’re going to build a content management system with Django as the backend and Vue as the front end. We’ll serve it in a docker container within our network for access across all of our devices. Why Here? There’s plenty of Django tutorials on the web, why use this tutorial? Well, everyone learns differently and has their own unique way of teaching....

Introduction Choropleth maps let us visualize how a variable varies across a geographic area or show the level variability within a region. We’re going to generate one using Python (and a few additional packages) and solve a real-world business problem as well. Here’s what we’re going to create: All of the files to follow along with this tutorial can be found here. The Ask ‘Using our attendance data, draw a map of attendance to neighbourhoods in the city for the month of December....

Introduction Each month, I’m required to compile daily attendance with weather taken at three different times throughout the day. Thankfully, Wunderground is a great source that allows me to retrieve historical data. There’s only one problem: no ability to export multiple days. Instead of wasting time selecting each day, let’s automate the boring part with Python and build a web scraper that will capture the data for each page within a date range....