The Case for a Data Science Lab

By Mark Sellors, Technical Architect – Mango Solutions As more and more Data Science moves from individuals working alone, with small data sets on their laptops, to more productionised, or analytically mature settings, an increasing number of restrictions are being placed on Data Scientists in the workplace. Perhaps, your organisation has standardised on a particular […]

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Matplotlib Plotting Cookbook Review

Here is my review I was given a copy of Matplotlib Plotting Cookbook by Alexandre Devert and asked to review it. Thanks PACKT! Here is my review. Preface But first, I’ll mention I’ve worked on two projects recently that involved rendering matplotlib graphs directly to the browser i.e. via content-type: image/png. This is fun! It’s […]

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Pillow 2-3-0 is Out

Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors Since Pillow 2.0, the Pillow Team has adopted a quarterly release cycle; as such, Pillow 2.3.0 has just been released. Here’s what’s new in this release: 2.3.0 (2014-01-01) Stop leaking filename parameter passed […]

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Pillow 2.2.1 Released

Pillow is the “friendly” PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library. Note An earlier version of this entry was published yesterday with the wrong date. Apologies for any annoyance or confusion. The Pillow 2.2.1 source distribution is now available on PyPI, featuring over 30 documented bug fixes and enhancements since 2.1.0 was released 3 […]

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