Building your own web tracking? Things to Consider
Putting together a summary of what I’ve learnt in the past four years on setting up tracking for a web product. Some thoughts to consider when planning your tracking framework.
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BigQuery + Colaboratory setup in 5 mins
For data analysis and exploration, Jupyter/IPython notebooks has often been the tool of choice for its ease in sharing work and explaining the thought process. If your data resides mainly …
Busiest MRT Stations in December?
Playing around with the Passenger Volume by Train Stations dataset on LTA DataMall. It’s a pretty cool dataset showing average number of tap ins and tap outs at each station …
argparse or argh … pass
As part of our data analytics infrastructure migration we’re using the argparse package much more heavily now to standardise how we run scripts. Along the way I ran into multiple …
Managing data access controls on BigQuery
Setting up access controls across an organization, even for a small one as ours, isn’t easy. Here’s an approach similar to what we use at Wego to manage access controls …
Making parameter estimates with BigQuery
Often in analytics, we’d want to find that one number that is representative of a sample to be able to briefly describe it. There are a couple of ways this …
Creating a data driven culture – Wego’s journey (Slides)
A big part of what we do in Wego’s Data Science and Analytics team involves the democratization of data, ensuring that people across the company, regardless of technical grounding, are …
To ‘b’ or not to ‘b’ – opening files in Python 3
Recently we’ve started moving our code from Python 2 to Python 3. The process has largely been smooth as most code works very similarly in both versions. However there are …
Getting destination themes from Wikivoyage text
With so much publicly available information on travel destinations these days, I was wondering if there was a simple way to extract themes for destinations around the world. This would …
Random Sampling with BigQuery
BigQuery is great for storing huge amounts of data over which to run analytics. But sometimes, what we need is just a sample of a dataset to for a dry …