My Dev Canvas


A Humble Abode For My Biased Blogs About Things I Have Learned In Python, Data Science, And Programming in General

Styling a Jupyter Notebook

Here I will go over multiple methods of using css and html to style and prettify your jupyter notebook like my photo below. For use in any html/css scenario I will be going over:

  • alert boxes
  • editing attributes in VSCode
  • css of headers
  • css of blockquotes
  • adding a shadow to an alert box
  • using markdown in a <div> block

Scraping Data As a Group

The teacher supplies a project, and the students complete the project. What if that data involves web scraping? Well I had the grand idea of getting the entire class in on scraping the budgets and grosses of 700,000 movies to match the 1-2 million movie datasets i downloaded from IMDB. So I went on my merry way and split the IMDB indexes I had into 10 parts, each with the name of a person.


Grocery Man to Data Scientist.

The month is October of 2018, I'm working as a Grocery Manager for Tom Thumb. Every week blending into the next, writing orders, building displays, dealing with cranky coworkers and customers. Never knowing if the customer really bought an item, or is trying to scam the store for cash. I had seen a future with the company until my mentor was denied a well deserved position. Together, Him and I were slowly detailing the ways in which we could start our own companies, or improve the company we were working for. So began the idea for tracking every expiry date in the departments, and the data that would come with such processes.

At the time, the department's dates were tracked, and entered monthly onto a terribly organized piece of paper. I wouldn't want to check it that way, so how could I expect my staff to do it. So I began my journey into Python starting with Sololearn, and then digging into the Python-Kivy framework for app development. I spent my days at work, and nights working on my miscellaneous projects, even stepping down so I had more time to work on development. Nearly two years into the future, I have a fully functional app with firebase integration for tracking the expiry dates. Then came the self-doubt, how do you sell something with no proof of concept, how do you make people see things through your eyes when the only concern is money? The answer was right in front of my eyes, data science.


global vs nonlocal statements and scopes