I am Abdul-Baqi

Flask on Heroku

Deploy a tiny web application on a free platform

Posted on September 28, 2017

Flask on Heroku! Seems a complete gibberish if you encounter them for the first time. But to me, for what I intend, they are very precious tools for any web developer. [Read More]

Tags: flask python heroku matplotlib technology

Mankind on this globe can sustain by following the lifestyle which the creator of this globe wants us to follow. This lifestyle is best known to the Islamic scholars who proclaim knowledge without fear or bias. [Read More]

Tags: knowledge gdp economy islam scholars

Manufacturing Irrationality under market capitalism

How Islam ensures rationality in monetary transactions

Posted on September 18, 2017

In the heart of today's market capitalism lies the concept of irrational consumerism. Big companies -aided by governments- manufacture irrational decisions by individuals. [Read More]

Tags: capitalism consumerism islam prophet economy money

Visualizing Global Goals

From Web to Charts with python

Posted on September 15, 2017

United Nation’s Statistical Division is the official sponsor of Sustainable Development Goals data. They have recently launched website hosting data. It allows retrieving information about indicators for a country, or retrieving all country data for an indicator. However, the site does not have yet visualization or interactivity facility. They just... [Read More]

Tags: sdg python data technology

Playing with World Development Indicators with Python

a handy API to connect to World Bank database

Posted on September 13, 2017

The purpose of this post is to give a hands-on demo on how to fetch data from World Bank’s famous World Development Indicators using a very handy wbdata package from python. Also, along this tutorial, you will get to know some regular expression usage in python, and how we can... [Read More]

Tags: wdi world-bank python data carbon-emission

Of Hajj and Rohingya

What Surah Hajj can offer to the Rohingya Muslims

Posted on September 10, 2017

Rohingya Muslims are the largest stateless people on earth today, and they are the most persecuted people as well. They are a victim of injustice carried out by intolerant terrorist Buddhist state amidst passive stand of the world leaders specially influential Muslim leaders (with a possible exception of Turkish president... [Read More]

Tags: rohingya buddhism

The Foreign Policy of U.S. Aids

Understanding US Aid through Data Exploration

Posted on September 2, 2017

I would like to dig deeper into the public dataset maintained by the US Aid website. It is intended to demonstrate data exploration methods in python starting from downloading the dataset to cleaning and preprocessing the file to creating visualizations and finally proving insights. [Read More]

Tags: python usa politics foreign-aid technology data

First post!

Posted on August 26, 2017

Here is my first post. I am excited to begin what I see a long journey. I am thankful to a number of internet blogging technology out there. If you are curious, here is what I did to arrange for this blog. [Read More]

Tags: technology jekyll website

I am Abdul-Baqi

I am Abdul-Baqi

Flask on Heroku

Deploy a tiny web application on a free platform

Gross National Knowledge

an alternative measure of prosperity

Manufacturing Irrationality under market capitalism

How Islam ensures rationality in monetary transactions

Visualizing Global Goals

From Web to Charts with python

Playing with World Development Indicators with Python

a handy API to connect to World Bank database

Of Hajj and Rohingya

What Surah Hajj can offer to the Rohingya Muslims

The Foreign Policy of U.S. Aids

Understanding US Aid through Data Exploration

First post!