rpy2 tutorial Recently I found the Python module rpy2. This module offers a Python interface to R. Obviously; rpy2 requires that you have both R (version 3.2+) and Python (versions 2.7 and 3.3) installed. There are pre-compiled binaries available for Linux and Windows (unsupported and unofficial, however). In this short tutorial, I will show you […]
Visualizing NBA Player Statistics
I haven’t written a post in a while. I had a lot to do for university and my hobbies like recreational programming and blogging have to suffer during those times. But now I have found some time and I’ll be adding smaller posts every now and then. In the Machine Learning course I am taking […]
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 […]
Top 10 Python libraries of 2015
As the new year approaches, we often sit back and think about what we have accomplished in 2015. Many of our projects would not have been as successful if it were not for the great work done by the open source community, providing some solid, bullet-proof libraries. Everyone and their grandma seems to be writing top 10 […]
Building a Rest API with the Bottle Framework
REST APIs have become a common way to establish an interface between web back-ends and front-ends, and between different web services. The simplicity of this kind of interface, and the ubiquitous support of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols across different networks and frameworks, makes it an easy choice when considering interoperability issues. Bottle is a […]
Complete Amnesia for Object Attributes?
Reanalysis of Chen & Wyble, 2015 Chen and Wyble published an interesting paper (2015) where they demonstrate that participants cannot report attributes of attended stimuli unless the participants are previously informed that this attribute is important. For instance, you wouldn’t remember the color of the apple if you had had just told someone the shape. […]
How I Use Vagrant and Docker in Consultancy Projects
By Doug Ashton – Data Scientist, UK Just like you I like to try out all the latest tech. If there’s a new feature in Shiny then I’ll download the latest version without thinking. I’ve currently got 4 versions of R on my laptop, 270 packages, 2 versions of Java, and a number of other […]
Work Smarter and Not Harder
by Brian Mitchell, Mango Solutions Here at Mango we take testing very seriously and as the automated tester in the company I take it more seriously than most. Automated testing does exactly what it says on the tin, it allows you to automate a number of test scenarios. We use specialised software to simulate mouse […]
Some good Python Blogs and Resources
In this post you will find some really good Python Blogs and Resources. Most of these really helped me when moving from proprietary software to free and Open Source software (e.g., PsychoPy written in Python). The links are divided into two categories: general and research. In the ‘general’ category you will find good Python resources […]
Python apps and libraries for creating experiments
In this post, I will describe the existing free Python applications and libraries for creating experiments. So far, I have only used PsychoPy but I plan to test most of them. At least the ones that seem to still be maintained. All applications and libraries are open-source which makes it possible to download the source […]
What programming language should I learn?
I am getting better at writing Python code and I am starting to feel an itch to extend my toolbox and learn more about programming. Therefore, one step in that direction is to learn a new programming language next year (i.e., 2016). I would like to learn a relatively new language and it should not […]
Practical Recursion Schemes at PragPub
Jared Tobin is one of our consultants at fugue.co—he’s a programmer and researcher based out of Auckland, New Zealand. Jared’s article in this month’s issue of PragPub, The Pragmatic Bookshelf’s magazine affiliation, is a helpful read if you’re interested in functional programming and Haskell in particular. Check out “Practical Recursion Schemes” here. Recursion schemes are […]
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 […]
Rustaceans: Please Keep a Changelog!
I’ve been coding Rust during my free time for a few months now (mostly on the spaceapi server, the telegram groups bot and rpsrtsrs). Something I noticed lately is that very rarely projects keep a changelog or provide release notes. Is that perception true? Here is the list of the 10 most downloaded crates on […]
How to tame a frenzy of tasks with Celery
Using Celery in our projects is not a constant, but from time to time we need to deal with some kind of asynchronous tasks for example, sending emails, calling APIs, and such. But this time we faced another kind of challenge, we needed to implement a processing intensive pipeline to download tweets, un-short URLs, get the […]