What’s a small, neat project I could work on to learn Python? E.g. if I wanted to become familiar with basic functions in Excel I might start with a budget tracker. What’s the equivalent type of project for Python?

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Build a website with django package. Do web scraping with beautiful soup

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K means clustering to group objects by attributes.

Selenium to automate something on the web

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Thanks. Could you be more specific in terms of how and what types of data/information can be scraped, clustered or automated on the web? For us non-programmers, it can be difficult to think in terms of abstractions...

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Sure, web scraping = pull down any content on any webpage into an organized dataset in csv/excel format via python. It will make more sense if you watch a tutorial on YouTube

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Scraping is good for a website that doesn’t already have an api (you could also do an api project).

I.e. you could go to autotrader, search a term like SUV, scrape the title, price, body, and contact information for the top 100 results for that item (bonus points if you store the images in something like mongoDB).

Then you could use clustering to try to group the cars based on qualities such as high mileage/low price or inferred quality. It basically assigns a qualitative grouping based off quantitative inputs. You have to decide what the grouping means though.

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You could make a sudoku solver with some kind of GUI. That’s a classic.

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start automating shit on python. you can start with a mouse jiggler script ;)

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