Archive - Autonomous Econ

Web scraping doesn’t have to be complicated

Scrape valuable datasets for your industry using basic Python skills

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Seeing the Economy from Space

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Satellite Data for Economic Insight.

Jun 3 •

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May 2025

This little-known Python package lets analysts tap into vast economic and financial data

A single data feed to automate your reports, dashboards, and models—without paying for expensive data terminals.

May 13 •

April 2025

Build a self-updating landing page for your Python plots

Set-and-forget automation, with no paid software or complex web hosting.

Apr 14 •

March 2025

Automating with AI Just Got Easier

How I built an AI Email Research Agent with Cursor and Python

Mar 18 •

A Python Hack to Grab U.S. Regional Economic Data

Add a regional dimension to your data stories and predictive models

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Web Scraping Demystified

A Complete Walkthrough with Python and the BeautifulSoup Library

Feb 17 •

January 2025

The essential Python tools to quickly impress your boss

My curated resource for non-data scientists working in economics, business, and finance.

Jan 30 •

December 2024

Extract data from an entire PDF folder in minutes

My simple template to do this using Python and OpenAI models

Dec 18, 2024 •

Why Housing Watchers Should Learn Python Programming

A showcase with housing and migration data

Published on Home Economics • Dec 3, 2024

November 2024

Learn these four models first for time-series forecasting

including applications in economics and finance, as well as the Python packages to implement them

Nov 17, 2024 •

October 2024

The essential guide to turn data into maps with Python

including design hacks that 90% of tutorials leave out

Oct 31, 2024 •

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