Unwrapping Chicago's Christmas Music Using Technology to Explore Trends
Using data scraping, Python, and visualization tools to map Chicago's Christmas music landscape — what's playing, where, and why it matters.
Founder @ FTS · Author of Live Life Automated & Geeking Out · MSP operator since 2016 · Former DevOps Engineering Manager, Abacus Group
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Using data scraping, Python, and visualization tools to map Chicago's Christmas music landscape — what's playing, where, and why it matters.
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