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Predicting Belgium’s future solar PV generation: Part I

This is part one of a two-part series. This part covers collecting and processing the data, then assessing the forecasts in the dataset. Part two covers my predictions. Intro I have a friend who owns a solar management platform, and he asked me to investigate some solar PV generation data provided by Elia, one of Belgium’s transmission system operators. The data includes measured solar PV generation by region, along with their various forecasts.

Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 15 minutes Read

How much for my car? Using machine learning to find out

Intro I own a wonderful Ford Fiesta ST-3 (2017, 7th generation, 38k miles), but since moving to London, she’s been sat at my parents’ house. I finally accepted it’s best to sell her. But how much should I ask? Let’s do some data analysis and machine learning! The JupyterLab notebook, extractor script, and data, is available on Github: https://github.com/jamesdeluk/data-projects/tree/main/car-price-regression-modelling Gather the data Auto Trader makes it difficult to scrape data - the page is loaded dynamically, and has robots.txt etc to restrict bots, so I couldn’t find an online tool that worked. They do provide an API, but that’s only for industry, and likely costs a pretty penny.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 21 minutes Read

Making a website with ChatGPT: DiscussAnyPage

Summary I went from an idea to a live website using ChatGPT in only a handful of prompts and a couple of hours, writing no code myself, and only copy and pasting commands. URL: https://discussanypage.onrender.com/ The idea On Saturday night, I had an idea - what if there was a way to leave a comment on any webpage? Sure, sites like Reddit and Disqus are similar, but I wanted to implemented in a different way. From any webpage, a bookmarklet or browser extension would automatically create a page on a website (I called it DiscussAnyPage, or DAP for short) where anyone can leave comments specifically for that webpage.

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 5 minutes Read

Mental Maths Practise Game

A Python script for improving mental maths

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | 1 minute Read

Seek.com.au Job Scraper

Which terms are popular in job descriptions? Where are the jobs? Enter your search term and find out. Click Run ► Drag the separator between the code and the output to the top to maximise output

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Thursday, July 2, 2020 | 1 minute Read

Australian Specified Work Postcode Checker

In Australia on a working holiday visa? Want to know if the place offering you work is in a regional area? Put in the postcode and find out here. And yes, it’s ugly - it’s a 5 minute GUI built with Flask (my first Flask project!) View on PythonAnywhere (external link)

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Saturday, May 30, 2020 | 1 minute Read