Getting statistical insights using Pandas and the YouTube Data API — Nowadays, there are more than 2.7 billion active YouTube users, and for many people, YouTube is not only entertainment but an important source of income. But how does it work? How many views or subscribers can different YouTube channels get? With the help of Python, Pandas, and the YouTube Data…

History is repeating itself. Nowadays, Apple’s M1/M2 ARM processors are considered a great achievement. But not so many people remember that at the end of the 1990s, Windows CE was able to run on ARM, MIPS, and SH3 microprocessors. This Windows version was made by Microsoft for portable and low-power…

A Raspberry Pi is All You Need — Often, we need to collect some data within a certain period of time. It can be data from the IoT sensor, statistical data from social networks, or something else. As an example, the YouTube Data API allows us to get the number of views and subscribers for any channel at…

Analyzing song lyrics with natural language processing — Songs and music are not only important parts of everyday life, but they are also cultural phenomena, reflecting different processes in society. What can we learn about modern culture from a data science perspective? I decided to use both statistical and NLP (natural language processing) approaches to analyze the texts…

Let’s go into bits and bytes — For 50 years, from the time of Kernighan, Ritchie, and their 1st edition of the C Language book, it was known that a single-precision “float” type has a 32-bit size and a double-precision type has 64 bits. There was also an 80-bit “long double” type with extended precision, and all…

Solving complex NLP tasks in 10 lines of Python code — It is mostly true that NLP (Natural Language Processing) is a complex area of computer science. Frameworks like SpaCy or NLTK are large and often require some learning. But with the help of open-source large language models (LLMs) and modern Python libraries, many tasks can be solved much more easily…

How Safe is our Data in the Cloud? — When I was a young and naive IT student, I thought that digital photos are much more reliable than paper ones. They can be duplicated without quality loss, and so on. This is indeed true in the short term. But in the long term, it is not as easy. Practically…

Technological progress is going at a fast pace. Most people probably never realized that even the ordinary smartwatch nowadays has more computing power, not only compared to the NASA computer that brought Apollo astronauts to the Moon but also compared to some vintage professional laptops. Can we use this power…

Reading, collecting, and analyzing data from the MPU6050 sensor — MEMS (Micro-electromechanical Systems) sensors are widely used in different applications, from game controllers and smartphones to unmanned aerial vehicles. …