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Chris Greening

generalized specialist - software engineer and data scientist - particularly fond of Python and R

New York metropolitan area Joined on Oct 5, 2020 chris@christophergreening.com https://www.christophergreening.com

Education

BSc in Physics, Stony Brook University, New York

Work

Data engineer at route1.io | Freelance software engineer and data scientist

instascrape

Powerful and flexible Instagram scraping library for Python, providing easy-to-use and expressive tools for accessing data programmatically

Python • 587 stars

chris-greening-blog

Repo for storing content related to Chris Greening's blog posts and tutorials

Python • 5 stars

Python, R, SQL, JavaScript, AWS, GCP, tidyverse, pandas, Shiny, Flask, Sass

Deep diving the outer limits of Shiny for building complex data-driven web apps

spyrograph - a lightweight open source Python package that provides an expressive and flexible set of tools for drawing beautiful mathematically driven art

any and all questions, discussions, ideas, advice, collaborations, etc. (whether it's programming related or not) my inbox is always open, I'd love to connect :D (preferably via Twitter or LinkedIn)

45 posts published

331 comments written

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Mar 30

Spyrograph is looking for beginners to open source to contribute!

#codenewbie #contributorswanted #opensource #python

3 min read

Apr 30 '22

Connecting to a relational database using SQLAlchemy and Python

#python #beginners #tutorial #database

6 min read

Jun 27 '21

I built an interactive 3D photo display with JavaScript

#showdev #webdev #javascript #threejs

3 min read

Jun 8 '21

I added a JavaScript arcade game to my portfolio's homepage

#showdev #javascript #webdev #blogging

3 min read

Aug 22

Calculating weighted averages with numpy and Python!

#python #tutorial #datascience #beginners

3 min read

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Aug 11

Visualizing shapefiles in R with sf and ggplot2!

#r #datascience #tutorial

5 min read

Aug 8

Effortlessly scrape HTML tables into Python using pd.read_html!

#python #datascience #webscraping #tutorial

3 min read

Apr 19

Unlock the power of method chaining for elegant and efficient Spyrograph transformations

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Apr 10

Customizing the origin of our geometric visualizations using Python and Spyrograph

#showdev #python #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Apr 8

Tracing multiple shapes on the same screen with Spyrograph

#showdev #python #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Apr 7

Adding a boomerang effect to our Spyrograph animations

#python #opensource #tutorial #contributorswanted

3 min read

Apr 6

Creating mesmerizing spirograph animations with Python and Spyrograph

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Apr 1

Scaling trochoid's and cycloid's input parameters with the Spyrograph `scale` method

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Mar 30

Drawing cycloids with a specific number of cusps using Spyrograph

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Mar 30

Plotting beautiful spirographs with matplotlib and Spyrograph

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Mar 25

Creating a range of hypotrochoids with the create_range method using Spyrograph and Python

#python #opensource #tutorial #contributorswanted

3 min read

Mar 25

Configuring the Spyrograph trace method to explore stunning geometric visualizations in Python

#python #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

3 min read

Mar 12

Draw beautiful geometric visualizations with Python and Spyrograph

#showdev #python #math #opensource

3 min read

Feb 4

Completing missing combinations of categories in our data with pandas.MultiIndex!

#python #datascience #tutorial #pandas

5 min read

Jan 29

Leveraging the pipe method to write beautiful and concise data transformations in pandas

#python #datascience #tutorial #codequality

4 min read

Jan 28

Joining multiple datasets on the same column in R using dplyr and purrr

#datascience #r #tidyverse #beginners

4 min read

May 10 '22

A playlist of podcast episodes I wish I knew about while studying for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam

#beginners #aws #cloud #codenewbie

2 min read

Mar 28 '22

Deploying a free tier relational database with Amazon RDS

#aws #beginners #tutorial #database

9 min read

Jan 31 '21

Animating 60 years of US energy data with 10 lines of Python

#python #datascience #codenewbie #tutorial

4 min read

Jan 21 '21

Scraping every post on an Instagram profile with less than 10 lines of Python

#showdev #python #datascience #codenewbie

3 min read

Jan 9 '21

So it goes: instascrape v2.0.0 is in the works

#opensource #python #datascience #contributorswanted

2 min read

Dec 31 '20

The Instagram Hashtag scraper

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

2 min read

Dec 28 '20

The Instagram Post scraper

#showdev #python #contributorswanted #datascience

2 min read

Dec 26 '20

The Instagram Profile scraper

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

2 min read

Dec 16 '20

Scraping IGTV data with instascrape

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

7 min read

Dec 14 '20

Scraping Instagram reels with instascrape

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

1 min read

Dec 11 '20

Scraping an Instagram location tag with instascrape

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

2 min read

Dec 7 '20

A reflection on designing my first API

#showdev #opensource #python #blogging

3 min read

Dec 7 '20

Introducing the official instascrape website

#showdev #python #webdev #blogging

1 min read

Dec 1 '20

Dynamically generate embeddable Instagram HTML with instascrape

#showdev #python #webdev #html

67 min read

Nov 24 '20

Tracking an Instagram posts engagement in real time with instascrape

#showdev #datascience #python #contributorswanted

2 min read

Nov 12 '20

Compare major tech Instagram page's with instascrape

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

3 min read

Nov 5 '20

Scraping 25,000 data points from Joe Biden's Instagram using instascrape

#showdev #python #datascience #contributorswanted

2 min read

Oct 29 '20

Complete list of markdown emojis for your blog posts and README's

#devto #writing #blogging #learning

1 min read

Oct 26 '20

Downloading recent Instagram photos using instascrape and Python

#showdev #python #webscraping #contributorswanted

2 min read

Oct 26 '20

Visualizing the Butterfly Effect with Python

#python #physics #science

5 min read

Oct 25 '20

Creating a scatter matrix of Instagram data using Python

#python #datascience #webscraping #opensource

3 min read

Oct 22 '20

Exploratory data analysis of Instagram using instascrape and Python

#python #datascience #opensource #webscraping

6 min read

Oct 21 '20

Visualizing Instagram engagement with instascrape and Python

#python #datascience #opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 20 '20

Scrape data from Instagram with instascrape and Python

#python #datascience #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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