PB Python Article Roadmap

Introduction

September 17th is Practical Business Python’s anniversary. Last year, I reflected on 5 years of growth. This year, I wanted to take a step back and develop a guide to guide readers through the content on PB Python.

As of this writing, I have 84 articles on the site. They vary from fairly complex and lengthy to quick summaries. When I wrote them, I did it based on my interests at the time and without much thought on progression. Now that I have a decent volume of articles, I want to organize them in a more meaningful way.

My ultimate goal for this site is that I want it to be a resource to help people use Python to automate away many of the repetitive tasks they do on a daily basis with tools like Excel. A secondary goal for is to cover more advanced Python topics that are difficult to do in Excel.

One reason for developing this guide is that at least 90% of my traffic comes from organic search. These users come to the site, read an article and move on. I hope those that find this guide will stay a little longer and find other relevant content and use this as a resource to navigate the Python ecosystem.

Secondly, this guide will be useful to help me understand gaps in the content and keep a mental framework for continuing to develop content. My intent is to update the sections below as I add new content. I will also maintain a link at the top of the Archives page to point people in the right direction.