Selenium is a very versatile web scraping tool that is accessible via multiple programming languages. It's distinguished from text-parsing scrapers like BeautifulSoup as it actually simulates a web navigation experience, enabling you to scrape website running on a lot of Javascript and iframes. That makes Selenium especially powerful when you ...

AdWords daily budget is a safety measure implemented to ensure that you don't overspend your budget and ensure that your budget pacing is done well for the month, quarter or year. However, sometimes you'll have campaigns that you would like to fully fund, such as your brand keywords. Your competitors ...

It's a good practice to keep your code modular to enhance its value and applicability to a wider range of use cases. It also helps to make your Python script shorter, reduces clutter and easier to understand. Readers of your code only need to know the purpose of you calling the ...

I find the forms function on Colaboratory extremely useful when you're sharing your Colaboratory notebook for a wider audience. Some users might not really understand Python to edit the variables for their use cases safely. Hence, the forms function provides a dialogue-box interface to enable editing of variables via an ...

Colaboratory is an amazing new tool built by Google that is a Jupyter notebook running on Python 2 or Python 3 ran entirely on the Cloud. The main advantages I find to using Colaboratory are: Very easy to share your code: Just share it like any Google Drive files It's fast: I've ...

Running a Python script on a schedule can be useful, either for scheduled data mining or updating of a dashboard on Google Sheets. There are cloud solutions out there, but there's a simple GUI version of a scheduler for scripts on Windows that can be used. The programme is included ...

Digital marketers operating on Adwords often have to spend a lot of time downloading reports from Adwords. The most painful part is when we need to download the same report repeatedly. When it comes to repetitive tasks, Adwords has helped to simplify it by allowing us to use Adwords Scripts. ...

Sentiment Analysis is a very useful (and fun) technique when analysing text data. In this piece, we'll explore three simple ways to perform sentiment analysis on Python. Dataset to be used I slowly extracted by hand several reviews of my favourite Korean and Thai restaurants in Singapore. I chose what ...

When working on a campaign/project that consists of teams from multiple regions or products/services available in multiple regions, it's useful to have the calendar of each country readily in view.  It can be useful for arranging a special promotion, arranging for team member's vacations and understanding impact to your campaign's ...

One of the key techniques when analysing keyword, headline or any text-related data is to find the connection between terms. Such analysis is called Network Theory or Graph Theory. In its simplest term, we are going to do a co-occurrence analysis between words. This can be extremely useful for discovering the ...