Poor Dude’s Janky Bluesky Feed Reader CLI Via R & Python
Lynn (of TITAA and general NLP wizardy fame) was gracious enough to lend me a Bluesky invite, so I could claim my handle on yet-another social media site. I’m still...continue reading.
Category: Python
Make your own *private* GPT with Python 🔒
Learn how to use the power of GPT to interact with your private documents. All using Python, all 100% private, all 100% free!continue reading.
Several Key PerformanceAnalytics Functions From R Now In Python (special thanks to Vijay Vaidyanathan)
So, thanks to my former boss, and head of direct indexing at BNY Mellon, Vijay Vaidyanathan, and his Coursera course, … Continue reading →continue reading.
More Terrible Pandas code from GPT
A few days ago, I was writing some code for a new machine learning course that I’m building, and I had a somewhat tricky problem to solve. As I’ve said...continue reading.
Update to Data Science Software Popularity
I’ve updated The Popularity of Data Science Software‘s market share estimates based on scholarly articles. I posted it below, so you don’t have to sift through the main article to...continue reading.
Data Project: Get and Analyze ‘Quality of Life’ Data for World Cities
I have a confession. I’m an American, and I was raised an American. But, I’ve been semi-nomadic for almost 10 years. A “digital nomad.” That is, I’ve lived in many...continue reading.
MAPMAKER: Design Tips for Improved Shiny App Performance
Partnering with domain experts and leveraging the power of technology and data science to make a positive impact is a core goal at Appsilon. Through our Data for Good program,...continue reading.
How to do Simple EDA for Machine Learning
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do some simple exploratory data analysis (EDA) for a machine learning project. In this tutorial, we’ll look at the Titanic dataset, which...continue reading.
This function VITAL for portfolio backtesting is now in Python, written with the help of chatGPT4
So, it’s been a little while. But after a couple of years of some grunt work analytics jobs *and* consulting … Continue reading →continue reading.
T-SQL Tuesday #162 Invitation – Data Science in the time of ChatGPT
This is a great opportunity and I am honoured to be hosting this months T-SQL Tuesday blogging invitation. With the invitation of Steve, we have agreed to post topic on...continue reading.
Rounding in R: Common Data Wrangling Frustrations and Workarounds in R, Julia, and Python
If you’ve played with data for long enough, you’re sure to run into some popular dead-ends. There are many of these, from misspelled location names and addresses to placeholder values...continue reading.
Shiny User Adoption Fails: 9 Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App
You had a great idea how to help your coworkers optimize their work. You’ve built an app and deployed it in a production server. Now you wait for some signs...continue reading.
Building a dataset of Python versions with regular expressions
Learn how to use pandas, requests, and regular expressions (“regex”) to create a dataset of every Python version and its release date!continue reading.
GPT Writes Terrible Pandas Code
Jesus. I just spent about an hour playing with GPT, asking it to write some Pandas code for me, and I want to set my computer on fire. Do you...continue reading.
Using WebR + Pyodide To Fill In The (Temporary) Package Gaps
I won’t wax long and poetic here since I’ve already posted the experiment that has all the details. TL;DR: there are still only ~90-ish 📦 in the WebR WASM “CRAN”,...continue reading.
The State of Shiny Survey: An Essential Tool for Data Scientists
The adoption of Shiny, the R package for building interactive web applications, is growing. As a leader in R Shiny development for enterprises, we’re asking you, fellow users of R...continue reading.
Working with Time Zones & Daylight Saving Time in pandas 🕑
Are you working with datetime data in pandas? Learn how to become “timezone-aware” so that your dataset cooperates with Daylight Saving Time!continue reading.
The Effect [book review]
While it sounds like the title of a science-fiction catastrophe novel or of a (of course) convoluted nouveau roman, this book by Nick Huntington-Klein is a massive initiation to econometrics...continue reading.
When R is Better
Recently, I wrote a blog post stating that I’m starting to use Python for most of my data science work. And I’m starting to recommend Python as the data science...continue reading.
When R is Better
Recently, I wrote a blog post stating that I’m starting to use Python for most of my data science work. And I’m starting to recommend Python as the data science...continue reading.
