Codementor: Spark & Python: MLlib Basic Statistics & Exploratory Data...
InstructionsMy Spark & Python series of tutorials can be examined individually, although there is a more or less linear ‘story’ when followed in sequence. By using the same dataset they try to...
View ArticleCodementor: Spark & Python: Working with RDDs (II)
InstructionsMy Spark & Python series of tutorials can be examined individually, although there is a more or less linear ‘story’ when followed in sequence. By using the same dataset they try to...
View ArticleCodementor: Spark & Python: Working with RDDs (I)
InstructionsMy Spark & Python series of tutorials can be examined individually, although there is a more or less linear ‘story’ when followed in sequence. By using the same dataset they try to...
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John Cook: Effective Computation in Physics
Earlier this week I had a chance to talk with Anthony Scopatz and Katy Huff about their new book, Effective Computation in Physics.JC: Thanks for giving me a copy of the book when we were at SciPy...
View ArticleNikola: Nikola v7.6.3 is out!
On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.6.3. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.What is Nikola?Nikola is a static site and blog generator,...
View ArticleWilliam Thompson: Python Idiom: Collection Pipeline
A common implementation involves calling a set of functions sequentially with the results of the previous call be passed to the subsequent call. from math import sqrt, ceildef transform(value): x =...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Throwing in the towel
Effective immediately, there will be no further feature development from me on Hypothesis for the foreseeable future.This is not the end of Hypothesis. I will still be:Managing the Hypothesis community...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 257] Alex Gaynor: Fast Python, Slow Python
People often complain that dynamic languages such as Python execute slowly. Of course, Python (and similar languages) are generally unable to reach the execution speeds that we see and know in other...
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Yasoob Khalid: Generating Text Using a Markov Model
Originally posted on alexhwoods:A Markov Chain is a random process, where we assume the previous state(s) hold sufficient predictive power in predicting the next state. Unlike flipping a coin, these...
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François Dion: Computing at 80,000ft, future tech and the future of tech
Another exciting Winston-Salem Section meeting at CDI ! Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 11:30am.Presenter: Francois DionOriginally from Montreal, Canada, Francois Dion is a Coder, Data Scientist,...
View ArticleArmin Ronacher: On Countries, Citizenships, Residence and Paying Taxes
Like many software engineers my life involved moving from one country to another for work. Since that moment this whole concept of relocation fascinated me because almost everyone in my circle of...
View ArticleMatthew Rocklin: A Weekend with Asyncio
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics and the XDATA Program as part of the Blaze Projecttl;dr: I learned asyncio and rewrote part of dask.distributed with it; this details my...
View ArticleEd Crewe: Picking a language for shell scripting based on its framework...
Do you work somewhere that has a lot of old shell scripts? Were they all dashed off quickly according to the whims of their original creator - just deploy scripts so maybe they missed some of the care...
View ArticleCodementor: Data Science with Python & R: Sentiment Classification Using...
Today we will introduce one of those applications of machine learning that leaves you thinking about how to put it into some product or service and build a company around it (and surely some of you...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Ram Rachum
This week we welcome Ram Rachum as our PyDev of the Week. Ram is the author of the Python Toolbox and PythonTurtle. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!Can you tell us a little about...
View ArticleRam Rachum: Mike Driscoll interviewed me on his blog
Mike Driscoll interviewed me on his blogI recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mike Driscoll on his blog, The Mouse vs. The Python.Mike is well-known in the Python world and especially in...
View ArticlePrzemysław Kołodziejczyk: How to install pip, virtualenv and...
I don't know how much up-to-date is pip in repositories from other distributions but version in Ubuntu 15.04 is from about year ago.sudo apt-get install python-pip eshlox@eshlox:~$ pip -V pip 1.5.6...
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Python Insider: Python 3.5.0 Release Candidate 1 released
Python 3.5.0rc1 is now available for download.This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for production settings. However, as a "release candidate", it should be very similar to the...
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Carl Chenet: Retweet, a simple bot to retweet tweets from a user
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* For a small project related to the french-speaking Hacker News-style website le Journal du hacker, I needed to retweet every tweets from a Twitter...
View ArticleBrett Cannon: Trying out Jupyter Notebooks
I happen to be on the team at Microsoft which recently launched an in-preview Jupyter Notebook service in Azure ML Studio. Before this I had heard of Jupyter Notebooks (nee IPython Notebooks) but I had...
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