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y $500, I was able to obtain this database (sorry — I can’t share the source).My client required data for specific types of firms. This is where data science enters the picture. I spent approximately 10 minutes writing a small Python script that used pandas to search for businesses in the required categories. Naturally, it took a bit longer to complete, and I had to send the results to my client.<figure id="dde7"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*Yf7gvfm-MFmDLv5s.png"><figcaption>Snap of Picture Taken by Me of My code</figcaption></figure>Here is a quick overview of the code:<ul><li>Step 1, place the requested industries in a list.</li><li>Step 2, get the dictionary of all the input files in my local directories by walking through the directories.</li><li>Step 3, create an empty list named frames to store the relevant dataframe by industry.</li><li>Step 4, Append the dataframes to the frames list by performing a str.contains search, by using ‘ |’.join(industries) I was able to search for all industries in a single search.</li><li>Step 5, Concatenate the frames to create a single dataframe</li><li>Step 6, Output data to multiple sheets in an excel file since the list contained more than 1M plus entries, exceeding the upward bound for an Excel worksheet.</li><li>Step 7, Send data to the customer</li><li>Step 8, the most important step — LOL. Collect payment from customers.</li></ul>I included an example snippet of code to demonstrate

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how I read in all of my input files, constructed the Pandas DataFrame, and searched for relevant industries.My new buyer sent me $6000 via PayPal the next day. He was even willing to pay the cost — so, I received the full$ 6K from this customer. Over the last two years, this consumer has needed assistance in several other areas. I’ve made at least $20,000 from him with very little effort on my part. Sometimes, I write a quick script that takes a few days to learn — but no real heavy lifting on my part.I’ve also done a number of other searches for this customer, including locating all.ai domains on the internet and searching and categorizing them by keywords.I even attended an AI conference in New York hosted by one of my customers. Now that I’m a member of the team, my customer turns to me for all comparable requests.I hope you enjoyed reading this. If you’d like to support me as a writer, consider signing up to <a href="https://medium.com/@dennisyd/membership">become a Medium member</a>. It’s just$ 5 a month and you get unlimited access to Medium.More content at <a href="https://plainenglish.io/">PlainEnglish.io</a>. Sign up for our <a href="http://newsletter.plainenglish.io/">free weekly newsletter</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/inPlainEngHQ">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/inplainenglish/">LinkedIn</a>. Join our <a href="https://discord.gg/GtDtUAvyhW">community Discord</a>.</article></body>

How I made quick money from a gig using Python

I became interested in data science over ten years ago. Before that I was tutoring a lot on the side, making over $3000 monthly during the school year. I often tutored groups of MBA students in challenging math-oriented classes, sometimes earning as much as $600 per hour.

However, after these students graduated, I needed to boost my tutoring revenue as high school students generally want one on one tutoring, so I went on Craigslist and fortunately found a posting that required 4,000,000 business email addresses. I didn’t have 4 million email addresses on hand, but I figured it would be a lucrative job so I decided to get creative. As a result, I scanned the internet for any database containing business email addresses that I could buy.

I discovered a database with over 64,000,000 corporate email addresses available for purchase. Of course, as people shift to new responsibilities, some data became invalid. However, about 80% of them remained valid. For roughly $500, I was able to obtain this database (sorry — I can’t share the source).

My client required data for specific types of firms. This is where data science enters the picture. I spent approximately 10 minutes writing a small Python script that used pandas to search for businesses in the required categories. Naturally, it took a bit longer to complete, and I had to send the results to my client.

Snap of Picture Taken by Me of My code

Here is a quick overview of the code:

Step 1, place the requested industries in a list.

Step 2, get the dictionary of all the input files in my local directories by walking through the directories.

Step 3, create an empty list named frames to store the relevant dataframe by industry.

Step 4, Append the dataframes to the frames list by performing a str.contains search, by using ‘ |’.join(industries) I was able to search for all industries in a single search.

Step 5, Concatenate the frames to create a single dataframe

Step 6, Output data to multiple sheets in an excel file since the list contained more than 1M plus entries, exceeding the upward bound for an Excel worksheet.

Step 7, Send data to the customer

Step 8, the most important step — LOL. Collect payment from customers.

I included an example snippet of code to demonstrate how I read in all of my input files, constructed the Pandas DataFrame, and searched for relevant industries.

My new buyer sent me $6000 via PayPal the next day. He was even willing to pay the cost — so, I received the full $6K from this customer. Over the last two years, this consumer has needed assistance in several other areas. I’ve made at least $20,000 from him with very little effort on my part. Sometimes, I write a quick script that takes a few days to learn — but no real heavy lifting on my part.

I’ve also done a number of other searches for this customer, including locating all.ai domains on the internet and searching and categorizing them by keywords.

I even attended an AI conference in New York hosted by one of my customers. Now that I’m a member of the team, my customer turns to me for all comparable requests.

I hope you enjoyed reading this. If you’d like to support me as a writer, consider signing up to become a Medium member. It’s just $5 a month and you get unlimited access to Medium.