NumFOCUS: AnacondaCON- Connecting Open Source Data Science & Industry!
NumFOCUS Founding Sponsor Continuum Analytics is holding the inaugural AnacondaCON in Austin, Texas on February 7-9. This one-of-kind event not only celebrates the contributions Anaconda has made to...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 2017.1 EAP 2 (build 171.2272.11)
After the Christmas break we’ve resumed work, and today we’re releasing our second EAP for PyCharm 2017.1. In this version we’ve fixed a couple of issues:If you use Docker on macOS, you’ve probably...
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Enthought: Webinar: An Exclusive Peek “Under the Hood” of Enthought Training...
Enthought’s Pandas Mastery Workshop is designed to accelerate the development of skill and confidence with Python’s Pandas data analysis package — in just three days, you’ll look like an old pro! This...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: New in Python: Syntax for variable annotations
Python 3.6 added another interesting new feature that is known as Syntax for variable annotations. This new feature is outlined in PEP 526. The basic premise of this PEP is take the idea of Type...
View ArticleDougal Matthews: Static Websites with Flask
I was investigating static site generators last week, I have used a couple of them before; this website is generated by Pelican, I am one of the maintainers of MkDocs, I use Sphinx regularly and I have...
View ArticleNikola: Nikola v7.8.3 is out (emergency bugfix release)
On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.8.3. This is an emergency bugfix release, which fixes a bug that prevented nikola new_page from working....
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DataCamp: New Course: pandas Foundations
We just launched pandas Foundations taught by Dhavide Aruliah, Director of Training at Continuum Analytics! In this course, you'll learn how to use the industry-standard pandas library to import,...
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DataCamp: DataCamp's 2017 Conference Guide
2017 is bound to be an exciting year in Data Science. Here's DataCamp's list of conferences that we're most excited about in the new year. Whether you're an R user, a Python hacker, or just a general...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Jacques Woodcock and Lasso
Speaker Profile: Jacques Woodcock (@jacqueswoodcock)Jacques started out as a graphic designer, turned, interactive programmer turned programmer who has 14+ years of experience in web technologies...
View ArticleCoding Diet: Lazy calculation
In many cases whilst programming there is a decision to be made as to whether to store some state, or (re)caluate it as and when needed. Obviously every situation is different and therefore there is no...
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Christoph Zwerschke: Ending the Epic Battle for Overlay Icons
An epic battle is going on deep inside in the registry of my Windows PC. The combatants: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and the allied forces of TortoiseGit, TortoiseHg and TortoiseSVN. The weapons:...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (lv) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2017-01-13 19:11:14 GMTUsing !s vs. :s to format a string in Python -...
View ArticleNumFOCUS: NumFOCUS End-of-Year Drive- we reached our goal!
The numbers are in and we are happy to announce that the NumFOCUS End-of-Year Fundraising Drive has raised $9,278.50, exceeding our original goal of $5,000! On behalf of NumFOCUS and all of the...
View ArticleCorey Oordt: The road to Docker, Django and Amazon ECS, part 5
For part 1For part 2For part 3For part 4Making the container able to serve its own static media filesSince each container will be behind a CDN or other caching proxy, we want each container able to...
View ArticleKushal Das: Updates from PyCon Pune, 12th January
This is a small post about PyCon Pune 2017. We had our weekly volunteers meet on 12th January in the hackerspace. You can view all the open items in the GitHub issue tracker. I am writing down the...
View ArticleWill Kahn-Greene: Me: 2016 retrospective
My 2016 retrospective in which I talk about projects I worked on, pushed off and other things.Read more… (6 mins to read)
View ArticleCoding Diet: if as syntax possibility
I have a small niggle that comes up in my Python programming. I'm going to describe it and propose a possible addition to the Python programming language that would mostly solve the problem. However, I...
View ArticleDataquest: How to present your data science portfolio on Github
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts on how to build a Data Science Portfolio.In the previous posts in our portfolio series, we talked about how to build a storytelling project, how to...
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Kushal Das: Setting up a retro gaming console at home
Commodore 64 was the first computer I ever saw in 1989. Twice in a year I used to visit my grandparents’ house in Kolkata, I used to get one or two hours to play with it. I remember, after a few years...
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Import Python: ImportPython Weekly 107 - Pandas DataFrames, Type annotations,...
Worthy Read Loading Data Into a Pandas DataFrame: The Hard Way, and The Easy Way Data exploration, manipulation, and visualization start with loading data, be it from files or from a URL. Pandas has...
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