Pygeohash version 1.1.0 is now live on pypi! It include the first release of the stats module, intended to provide high level stats and manipulations for lists of geohashes. The initial functions are: mean: provides the mean position from a list of geohashes northern: the northernmost geohash in the list southern: the southernmost geohash in […]
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Solving the two envelopes problem with python and petersburg
In a couple of previous posts (here, here, and here) we’ve explored how petersburg represents uncertain decisions as a directed acyclic graph with weighted random decisions for which edge to take out of a given node. It turns out this is very similar to Bayesian networks, which will be the subject of post in the […]
Why Spyder is the Best Python IDE for Science
Spyder is the best IDE that I have tested so far for doing data analysis, but also for plain programming. In this post I will start to briefly describe the IDE. Following the description of this top IDE the text will continue with a discussion of my favourite features. You will also find out how […]
Exploring U.S. Traffic Fatality Data
About Ben: Ben is a Data Analyst at DataScience. When not digging into a dataset, you’ll find him on a bicycle searching for funk records and the best tacos in LA. Introduction and Inspiration At a ChiPy event, Nick Bennett gave an excellent talk on traffic fatalities and how he attempts to visualize the publicly […]