Data Science Blogging with Pelican

Data Science

I've been blogging on Wordpress since 2007, but very infrequently, maybe somewhat due to the workflow and platform. For many years now, most of the interesting content I create is in Jupyter notebooks (certainly the more relevant content to my work these days). I wanted a way to integrate this content into my blog, but realized that not all of the legacy content has aged well and a notebook workflow using the current setup would likely be cumbersome.

I've used nbviewer to make web accessible versions of notebooks in the past, for example:

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Traffic Metrics and 5 Source Code Search Sites

Competitive research and traffic analysis is an important part of launching a new site or web app.

Alexa Toolbar

I did a quick study that uses source code search sites as the subject for comparison. Here I highlight some key metrics from these two Firefox add-ons:

I found these sites through my delicious bookmarks, search, and the "Similar Pages" and "Related Links" features of both of the above add-ons

Source Code Search Site Alexa Traffic Rank CoolGoogle PageRanke
Google.com/codesearch 2 7
Koders.com 34642 6
Krugle.com 113268 5
Codefetch.com 175389 4
Codease.com …
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