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There’s often a lot of repetition in many data science projects. In tasks that utilise Natural Language Processing (or NLP), for example, you’ll always need to preprocess your text to...
XML sitemaps are designed to make life easier for search engines by providing an index of a site’s URLs. However, they’re also a useful tool in competitor analysis and allow...
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Keyword cannibalisation occurs when you have several pages ranking for the same phrase, effectively putting them in competition with each other for search engine rankings. Since Google generally only shows...
In many data science projects you may need to download remote data, such as images, CSV files, or compressed data. Python makes it fairly straightforward to download files within your...
I love sarcasm, but unfortunately I have a shaky ability to easily detect it in the voices of others, an aptitude for misinterpreting serious comments for sarcasm and then inappropriately...
Long before Donald Trump erroneously applied it to mean “news that he didn’t agree with”, the term “fake news” referred to disinformation and misleading editorial content. In recent years, it’s...
