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Count me in the half that's alive :)

For what it's worth (because I doubt I'm ever going to finish this guide):...

Just use the most recent 2.x version, it will be fine

It's absolutely possible.

This is a very valid concern. Here's the thing, and its kind of selfish on my part too. I'm not, and probably won't be a huge sports bettor. It's not that i cant be... It's something if I put 100%...

Section D) How to scrape the internet for data

One of the most important aspects of research is the data that you have. Without data, there can't be any model. Fortunately, most data is free --...

I think efficiency is kind of a moot point at this stage. Were not dealing with things in handicapping that efficiency would not matter. I've written a python baseball simulator that processes...

R is completely different from python, they do very different things, and both are very valuable to know. Python is more versitile than R in my opinion, and if you were only going to learn one...

Python is infinitely easier than C, Visual basic and Java. It will become more apparent the more you do with it, but take a look at the code to open and parse a CSV file. 3 readable lines. Show me a...

As far as Python and webscraping goes, your going to want to obtain BeautifulSoup and something called Mechanize. I intend to write about these in the next section. I may try to write up a commonly...

I'm writing this post to serve as an intro into using computers for sports betting. Programming isn't as hard as most people think, and the basic skills can be picked up on a weekend. This will be by...