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Building a Repeatable Data Analysis Process with Jupyter Notebooks
Building a Repeatable Data Analysis Process with Jupyter Notebooks Source – PbPython.com Introduction Over the past couple of months, there has been an ongoing discussion about Jupyter Notebooks affectionately called the […]
Pandas Crosstab Explained
Pandas Crosstab Explained Source – PbPython.com Introduction Pandas offers several options for grouping and summarizing data but this variety of options can be a blessing and a curse. These approaches are […]
New Plot Types in Seaborn’s Latest Release
New Plot Types in Seaborn’s Latest Release Source – PbPython.com Introduction Seaborn is one of the go-to tools for statistical data visualization in python. It has been actively developed since 2012 […]
Automating Windows Applications Using COM
Automating Windows Applications Using COM Source – PbPython.com Introduction Python has many options for natively creating common Microsoft Office file types including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. In some cases, however, […]
How many objects does Python allocate during its interpreter lifetime?
How many objects does Python allocate during its interpreter lifetime? – Source Rushter.com It can be very surprising to see how many objects Python interpreter temporarily allocates while executing simple […]
Python’s GIL implemented in pure Python
Python’s GIL implemented in pure Python – Source Rushter.com There is an excellent presentation of how the modern GIL performs thread scheduling, but unfortunately, it lacks some interesting details (at […]
Book Review: Machine Learning with Python Cookbook
Book Review: Machine Learning with Python Cookbook Source – PbPython.com Introduction This article is a review of Chris Albon’s book, Machine Learning with Python Cookbook. This book is in the tradition […]
Extracting text from HTML in Python: a very fast approach
Extracting text from HTML in Python: a very fast approach – Source Rushter.com When working with NLP problems, sometimes you need a large corpus of text. The internet is the […]
Building Bullet Graphs and Waterfall Charts with Bokeh
Building Bullet Graphs and Waterfall Charts with Bokeh Source – PbPython.com Introduction In my last article, I presented a flowchart that can be useful for those trying to select the appropriate […]
Choosing a Python Visualization Tool
Choosing a Python Visualization Tool Source – PbPython.com Introduction This brief article introduces a flowchart that shows how to select a python visualization tool for the job at hand. The criteria […]
How not to deploy web applications
How not to deploy web applications – Source Rushter.com Recently, I was looking for tutorials on how to deploy a Django application in 2018. After some research, I found an […]
Writing a simple SOCKS server in Python
Writing a simple SOCKS server in Python – Source Rushter.com This article explains how to write a tiny and basic SOCKS 5 server in Python 3.6. I am assuming that […]
Optimization tricks in Python: lists and tuples
Optimization tricks in Python: lists and tuples – Source Rushter.com Python has two similar sequence types such as tuples and lists. The most well-known difference between them is that tuples […]
Overview of Pandas Data Types
Overview of Pandas Data Types Source – PbPython.com Introduction When doing data analysis, it is important to make sure you are using the correct data types; otherwise you may get unexpected […]
Intro to pdvega – Plotting for Pandas using Vega-Lite
Intro to pdvega – Plotting for Pandas using Vega-Lite Source – PbPython.com Introduction Much has been made about the multitude of options for visualizing data in python. Jake VanderPlas covered this […]