Matthew Rocklin: Custom Parallel Algorithms on a Cluster with Dask
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics the XDATA Program and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative from the Moore FoundationSummaryThis post describes Dask as a computational task scheduler that...
View ArticlePyPy Development: Leysin Winter Sprint (20-27th February 2016)
The next PyPy sprint will be in Leysin, Switzerland, for the eleventh time. This is a fully public sprint: newcomers and topics other than those proposed below are welcome.Goals and topics of the...
View ArticlePyPy Development: Leysin Winter Sprint: 25/26th Feb. - 4th March 2017
The next PyPy sprint will be in Leysin, Switzerland, for the twelveth time. This is a fully public sprint: newcomers and topics other than those proposed below are welcome.Goals and topics of the...
View ArticlePyCharm: Inside Python Podcasting: Interview with Michael Kennedy
The Python community has long been hailed as inviting to newcomers. But it’s now huge, which can be daunting. Fortunately, we have some guides that help you sort through all the packages and...
View ArticlePython Data: Collecting / Storing Tweets with Python and MySQL
A few days ago, I published Collecting / Storing Tweets with Python and MongoDB. In that post, I describe the steps needed to collect and store tweets gathered via the Twitter Streaming API.I received...
View ArticleDataCamp: Switching From Web Dev to Data Science
The data science field is still hot and the programming languages that have been used for it are too: R popularity has been increasing every year and especially Python gaining more and more importance...
View ArticleReal Python: Token-Based Authentication with Flask
This tutorial takes a test-first approach to implementing token-based authentication in a Flask app using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs).ObjectivesBy the end of this tutorial, you will be able to…Discuss the...
View ArticlePython Software Foundation: "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil
In a 1947 lecture on computing machinery, Alan Turing made a prediction: "The new machines will in no way replace thought, but rather they will increase the need for it." Someday, he said, machines...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Jason Greathouse and Stratasan
Speaker Profile: Jason Greathouse (@usrbinjgreat)During the week it’s Linux, Docker, Cloud Infrastructure and Automate All The Things!Fun Facts:Linux Operations since Kernel 2.0.36Cloud and Container...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Trey Hunner and Smile Direct Club
Speaker Profile: Trey Hunner (@treyhunner)Trey Hunner is a Python trainer and technical consultant based in San Diego, CA. Trey co-organizes the San Diego Python and JavaScript meetups and has...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: Continuum Analytics Announces Speakers for...
NewsTuesday, January 24, 2017Featuring the best and brightest minds in Open Data Science from Forrester Research, General Electric, Capital One and othersAUSTIN, Texas—January 24, 2017—Continuum...
View ArticleKushal Das: My highest used Python function
I heard the above-mentioned lines many times in the past 10 years. Meanwhile I used Python to develop various kinds of applications. Starting from web-applications to system tools, small command line...
View ArticleWill Kahn-Greene: Everett v0.8 released!
What is it?Everett is a Python configuration library.Configuration with Everett:is composeable and flexiblemakes it easier to provide helpful error messages for users trying to configure your...
View ArticleMarcos Dione: implementing-selenium-with-python-and-qt
I'm writing a python module that allows me to 'drive' a site using Qt. This means that I can navigate the site, fill forms, submit them and read the resulting pages and scrape them, Selenium style. The...
View ArticleClaudio Sparpaglione: Learn Geospatial data processing with Python
Due to my work experience in geospatial applications development, last year I was selected as reviewer for a good introductory book on the topic, and that was a honor to me.The book is:Geospatial...
View ArticleKracekumar Ramaraju: Expose jupyter notebook over the network
What is the Jupyter notebook?The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualisations and explanatory text.The...
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka Release 0.5.25
This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler. Please see the page "What is Nuitka?" for an overview.This release contains a huge amount...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #96 Exploring Awesome Python
Python is said to be a language that comes with "batteries included". That has many meanings depending on the level you're focusing on. At the lowest, it's a very rich and expressive language. Most...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Jason Orendorff and MemPy
Speaker Profile: Jason Orendorff (@jorendorff)Jason Orendorff hacks on the Firefox JavaScript engine for Mozilla.Jason will be presenting “A simple search engine in Python” at 2:00PM Sunday (2/5) in...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Pat Viafore and NashJS
Speaker Profile: Pat Viafore (@patviaforever)Pat is a Software Engineer at ADTRAN in Huntsville, Alabama. He’s game for coding up anything, and always happy to learn something new. Professionally, he...
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