I was using FakeNameGenerator’s bulk generated data in order to accomplish some big data related work. While importing the CSV file into MongoDB I ran into a peculiar issue: one of the keys wasn’t recognized at all. I ran db.runCommand({distinct: “customers”, key: “Number”}) and it would show 0 results, even though I can see Number listed as a Read More
5 Things About Sequelize That Had Me Scratching My Head
The longer title of this article is 5 things about Sequelize that had me scratching my head when I was making an API using Node and Express. I had never used Sequelize before and had not done any programming on Node.js either. So, I ran into a few issues which took me a while to solve. I’m Read More
Grab PacktPub Free Learning eBook Everyday Automatically
Packt Publishing have a lot of good premium books and everyday they put up a premium book for download for free. You could get a premium book a day by going to the Free Learning eBook page. I chose to automate the process and have the book grabbed automatically to my PacktPub account everyday. I Read More
Convert Fortinet’s Fortiguard WebFilter logs to CSV Format
I put together this script called csvify_fortinet_logs in order to convert the space separated format of Fortinet Router’s Fortiguard WebFilterLog to a more widely used and favorable for analysis format, CSV. I wanted to analyse the web filter log of the router, but could not use it as an input to pandas, so had to Read More
Using WiFi Metadata To See The Places You’ve Been To In The Past
I am kind of changing the way I do things here on the blog, by introducing new categories, and by maybe letting go some of the categories. Its been over 5 years, and I feel that I need to make some changes now. And so, the first of the many new fun, rookie things that Read More
RSS Feed for Amazon Kindle Top 100 Free Best Sellers
SORRY THIS NO LONGER WORKS. Import.io REMOVED THEIR FREE PLAN AND I JUST COULDN’T PAY TO KEEP THIS RUNNING. Amazon has a listing of the best sellers in the Kindle Store, and the listing is divided into two types: Paid and Free. Meaning, there’s a list of top 100 best selling kindle books that are Read More
List of Nepali data sources
Hi guys, its been a long time. I am tired of making empty promises (regarding posting regularly) so, let me not do it again. While I was beginning my data-science journey, I tried to collect as many sources for Nepali datasets as possible, and the following is the listing of the same. The problem is Read More
Visualizing Email Sentiment with Google Script
Hi guys, it’s been a while. I have been busy with my studies. I will try my best to continue updating the blog regularly (i.e at least 2-3 posts a week) but please don’t hold me to it. About 5-6 months back, I was struck with this idea of finding out whether my college administration Read More
Free $10 Worth of Anime Merchandises & Artworks (Free Shipping)
I recently came across this promotion, and thought I’d share it here; it has been a while since I last posted about any freebies (or any post for that matter.) If you head over to Otakumode right now, and register, you will receive a 5$ welcome coupon and a 5$ TOM credits. Combined, you will Read More
Websites That Offer Free Shipping To Nepal (and Worldwide!)
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over (and apparently Green Monday too). On these two days, western stores offer huge discounts on products. I was looking to make some purchase, but could not find a deal with free International shipping. Buying from stores, mostly those that are based on western countries, would cost you almost Read More
How To Batch Crop & Straighten Scanned Photos?
I spent the last two days scanning photos from my family albums (about 900 photos). Scanning each photos individually will take lots of time, however not any further processing is needed. When you scan multiple images at once, you need to crop and straighten each photo from a single page you scanned. With the scanner Read More
JetBrains’ Products Now Free For (Nepali) Students
A little late in sharing this wonderful news. If you don’t know yet, JetBrains, the developer of awesome IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and PhpStorm have made their products free for students. And guess what? This is unlike other free-for-students offer. Most of the free-for-students discounts are limited to students of US university and colleges only. Read More