In this episode, we cover how Python is being used to understand the electrical markets and grid in Australia. Our guest, Jack Simpson, has used Python to uncover a bunch of interesting developments as the country has adopted more and more solar energy. We round out the episode looking at some best practices for high-performance, large-data processing in Pandas and beyond.
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In addition to that, we also spend some time on how Jack used Python and Open CV (computer vision) to automate the study of massive bee colonies and behaviors. Spoiler alert: That involved gluing Wing Ding fonts to the backs of bees!<br/>
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<strong>Links from the show</strong><br/>
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<div><b>Jack Simpson</b>: <a href="https://jacksimpson.co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jacksimpson.co</a><br/>
<b>Bees, lasers, and machine learning</b>: <a href="https://jacksimpson.co/bees-lasers-and-machine-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jacksimpson.co</a><br/>
<b>South Australian Gas Generator Interventions</b>: <a href="https://jacksimpson.co/south-australian-gas-generator-interventions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jacksimpson.co</a><br/>
<b>PySAM System Advisor Model</b>: <a href="https://sam.nrel.gov/software-development-kit-sdk/pysam.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sam.nrel.gov</a><br/>
<b>Visualizing the impact of Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown on Solar Panel Installations</b>: <a href="https://jacksimpson.co/visualising-the-impact-of-melbournes-covid-19-lockdown-on-solar-panel-installations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jacksimpson.co</a><br/>
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<b>Stack Overflow Python graph</b>: <a href="https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=java%2Cpython%2Cc%23%2Cvb.net%2Cjavascript%2Cruby%2Cswift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insights.stackoverflow.com</a><br/></div><br/>
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