Before PyCon HK in early of November, we organises some python meetups and promotes PyCon HK this year. Date: 17 July 2017, Monday. Time: 8-10pm Venue: Lecture Theatre LT-5, 4/F Yeung Kin Man Acad Building (AC1), City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong. RSVP: Facebook, Eventbrite, Meetup. Topics: python data science popular packages and kaggle […]
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Installing Python 3 + Scrapy on Ubuntu 16.04
You may prepare a Linux VM on laptop using VirtualBox. For participants at Python 101 + Web Scraping on Python workshop, alternatively you can download a VirtualBox image from here. Downloading software. Download Oracle VM VirtualBox Download Ubuntu Server 16.04.02 LTS 64-bit How to verify Ubuntu ISO image $ md5 ubuntu-16.04.2-server-amd64.iso MD5 (ubuntu-16.04.2-server-amd64.iso) = 2bce60d18248df9980612619ff0b34e6 […]
Python 101 intro workshop & web scraping with python (Cantonese)
In Hong Kong, many information are available on internet but they are not published as open data, so we talk about the basic technique how to retrieve and extract data from raw HTML pages. This 90-min workshop will quickly cover the basic of:* Python 101 – Introduction to Python Programming* Basic web scraping on python […]
Journey to PyCon APAC & COSCUP
From Editor: Alvis joined Hong Kong Open Source Program for Youth in 2016, and he wrote this post to share his journey to PyCon APAC 2016 and COSCUP 2016 after he is awarded from “Program of Youth”. Hong Kong Open Source Program for Youth: https://opensource.hk/program-for-youth/. Journey to PyCon APAC & COSCUP (How I got Korean […]
Hardcore Scraping!
Open Source Hong Kong and Hong Kong R User Group present: Hardcore Scraping! A crossover event between Open Source Hong Kong and Hong Kong R User Group to show you the practical web scraping solutions and they are really hardcore! Date: 26 September 2015, Saturday. Time: 3:00-5:30pm Venue: Digital Media Lab, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong […]
