HKPyUG Meetup (July 2017)

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 […]

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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 […]

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