By Richard Pugh, Commercial Director I love my job. Seriously. I was enjoying it before Hal Varian made it sexy, but since then, and the data science explosion, everything has kicked into an even higher gear. Why do I love it? Because fundamentally, our job as data scientists is to help people make better decisions […]
Category: Statistics
Pillow 2015 Report
Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors. The state of the Pillow Pillow Fighter #2 Eric Soroos had some time constraints recently so I managed the Pillow 2.8 release. While preparing the release I also reviewed and updated the entire […]
Data Science Tweet Analysis – What tools are people talking about?
By Chris Musselle PhD, Mango UK At Mango we use a variety of tools in-house to address our clients’ business needs and when these fall within the data science arena, the main candidates we turn to are either the R or Python programming languages. The question as to which is the “best” language for doing […]
Top 15 functions for Analytics in Python #python #rstats #analytics
Here is a list of top ten fifteen functions for analysis in Python import (imports a particular package library in Python) getcwd (from os library) – get current working directory chdir (from os) -change directory listdir (from os ) -list files in the specified directory read_csv(from pandas) reads in a csv file objectname.info (like proc contents […]
Python + Elasticsearch. First steps.
Lately, here at Tryolabs, we started gaining interest in big data and search related platforms which are giving us excellent resources to create our complex web applications. One of them is Elasticsearch. Elastic{ON}15, the first ES conference is coming, and since nowadays we see a lot of interest in this technology, we are taking the opportunity to give […]
I Love Checkoutmanager and Dotfiles
An ode to my OS X development workstation setup [1] I am big on setting up my development environment, and enjoying the environment I work in. And I’m very thankful to the folks who make my life easier, including the authors of: Python: Python Core Developers dotfiles: Jon Bernard checkoutmanager: Reinout Van Rees I also […]
New Vanity Release
This release features the ability to display per package download statistics. With all the Python stats goodness going on recently, I got inspired to make a new vanity release. This release features the ability to display per package download statistics via the `-v` or `–verbose` command line argument. Here are some of my favorite results. […]
Battlelog: Modern Web Applications are Here
It’s the shooter season of the year and this fall was all about Modern Warfare 3 versus Battlefield 3. And being the kind of game they are they also try to keep their audience playing by introducing some additional level of engagement. Both Call of Duty and Battlefield introduced their own online community websites and […]
You’re So Vain, So Why Not Use Vanity?
A few months ago I created a package called Vanity A few months ago I created a package called Vanity[0] that provides easy access to package download statistics from PyPI. You can find the source code here: https://github.com/aclark4life/vanity. I love this tool, and I use it all the time to gauge the value of a […]