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A popular beginners machine learning problem is the prediction of housing prices. A frequently used data set for this purpose uses housing prices in California along some additional gathered through the 1990 Census.

What do you do when your data table is in PDF format? Let’s use tabula-py to extract teacher salary information from PDFs directly into Pandas dataframes. We’ll also use some regex to clean up the results.

The Census Bureau makes an incredible amount of data available online. In this post, I will summarize how to get access to this data via Python by using the Census Bureau’s API.

My website is back up and running! Some incompatabilities between my old site and updates to both Hugo and the Academic Theme have led to some downtime on this page as I didn’t have time to look through how to rebuild my site without loosing previous content.