Posted on Fri 15 November 2019 in programming • Tagged with javascript
When I started writing Python, I quickly fell in love with keyword and keyword-only arguments because I realized they could make my code much more readable and robust. When I started writing Javascript, I was disappointed that there was no such thing. Until I read about object destructuring.
Posted on Tue 05 November 2019 in programming • Tagged with python, data
This is part of a series of articles on how to work with large data
The first method I want to explore when working with large data, since we cannot use RAM, is to use a database for our dataset. Databases are a staple of data processing and analysis, and …
Posted on Mon 04 November 2019 in programming • Tagged with python, data
Here's a question: how do you analyze data that is too big to fit into memory?
Those of you that have worked with pandas before are probably intimately
familiar with the following syntax, which reads csv file into a DataFrame
variable
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('dataset.csv …Posted on Fri 28 June 2019 in programming • Tagged with javascript
I have a confession to make; I don't know javascript all that well. As a developer whose strengths lie primarily in back-end work, I've always held the language at arms' length, relying on it only when absolutely necessary. All that is about to change, because I am finally embracing javascript …
Posted on Tue 20 November 2018 in programming • Tagged with python, data
The HOTS Logs website (https://hotslogs.com) has an API with a data dump of the past 30 days' worth of replays.
https://www.hotslogs.com/Info/API
It's an automated version of this reddit post:
That being said, this information is incredibly awesome! What kind of information can be gleaned from it?
Posted on Thu 04 October 2018 in programming • Tagged with python, data
Seattle has a reputation for being a pet friendly city. By some estimates, there are more dogs in the city than there are children, an impressive feat for a place as populous as Seattle. Seattle's open data portal contains, among other things, information on licensed pets.
Awesome!
Let's explore the kinds of insights that can be found by looking at this data.
Posted on Wed 18 July 2018 in programming • Tagged with markdown, presentations
This month I have the pleasure of co-teaching the Jump Start Live course for the Ada Developers Academy - a short course designed to reinforce basic programming concepts to students prior to the start of the full program. Part of the course material is available online in markdown format, but the …
Posted on Mon 25 June 2018 in programming • Tagged with python
Here's a hypothetical situation. Suppose you're starting a new project and you
want to use the requests library. Installing requests also installs the
libraries that it depends on. Should you be explicit and pin the versions of
all installed libraries (equivalent to the output of pip freeze)
certifi==2018.4 …Posted on Fri 08 June 2018 in programming • Tagged with python, shell
If you're like me, you dislike doing repetitive tasks when a script could have just as easily done the work for you. For example, starting a jupyter server on my local machine requires me to do the following:
Posted on Sun 06 May 2018 in programming • Tagged with python
I do a fair amount of data manipulation work in pandas and as such, I find myself doing a lot of method chaining. In the past I've struggled to find a good way of keeping my code concise while still maintaining readability.
What do I mean by that? Suppose we have census data on a group of people.