Shopify is great! It helps you ship your products all across the world for discounted rates. But what happens when someone down the street orders from you? Are they going to pay the extra few bucks to get it shipped? Most e-commerce stores don’t have a physical location so they can’t just come down to […]
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My wife runs an e-commerce website for artwork (Ayah Collective). Her main customer base is on social media so she needs her store to connect to social media platforms in order to optimize all her sales channels. Her e-commerce store is based on a Shopify backend. We chose Shopify over alternatives like woo-commerce because it […]
The Toronto Municipal Election is scheduled for October 22, 2018. Incumbent mayor John Tory is running for re-election, but there is expected to be a lot of change in terms of those governing the city. Toronto City Council has added the new wards in the downtown core to account for the rising growth in population […]
Background The Toronto Real Estate market (and it’s surrounding areas – the GTA) have been red hot coming into 2017. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), home prices on average have risen over 65% from 2012 to 2017 (TREB Historic Statistics). I decided to pull the TREB numbers into an excel sheet and see […]
Snapchat Spectacles videos are simply amazing. They’re HD and you can rotate your phone to see more angles of the same video. Furthermore, the fact that they double up as sunglasses, allows you to take a stable video without carefully holding your phone out in front of you. Unfortunately you cannot currently take pictures with […]
I mentioned in a previous post on how to get (nearly) live stock data from Google Finance. However, if you start pulling data from different markets, daily historical rates won’t make sense as different markets are closed on different days. This causes problems when trying to figure out the correlation between stocks. A solution to […]
For this tutorial we will be using Google Sheets. Google Sheets is a great resource for scraping data from the internet and it’s free! First, we need to set up our Google Sheet in a format that will make pulling the data easy and accessible for future analysis. In the first row, add in the […]
The GoPro was one of the biggest revolutions when it came to shooting live action footage. Unfortunately, what many people weren’t aware of was with any camera, shooting video is incredibly difficult without a stabilizer. You end up with a lot of shaky cam and unusable footage, even with a warp stabilizer during post production. […]
Backstory A few months ago I had a genius idea. I could create a personal website with Ruby on Rails and host it on Heroku for free using a Free Plan and a monitor robot to keep the website awake. The only thing I’d have to pay for is a domain name that I could […]