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Data Science Notebooks | 2020 Review

Tools & Languages Deepnote jupyter Notebooksposted by ODSC Community February 10, 2021

2020 was a roller coaster, but the data science community is going strong. Interest in the data science domain has grown in the past year yet again. We dug into the data to learn more about the current state of a vital part of the data... Read more

How to Load Big Data from Snowflake Into Python

Modeling Python Tools & Languages Saturn Cloud Snowflakeposted by ODSC Community February 4, 2021

We at Saturn Cloud are dedicated to fast and scalable data science with Python. Often this looks like querying data that resides in cloud storage or a data warehouse, then performing analysis, feature engineering, and machine learning with Python. Snowflake is a scalable cloud data warehouse... Read more

Getting Started with Pandas

Modeling Python Tools & Languages Pandas West 2020posted by ODSC Community September 16, 2020

Pandas is a popular data analysis library built on top of the Python programming language, and getting started with Pandas is an easy task. It assists with common manipulations for data cleaning, joining, sorting, filtering, deduping, and more. First released in 2009, pandas now sits as... Read more

Removing Items From a Set – remove(), pop(), and difference

Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community September 10, 2020

Python has a rich collection of built-in data structures. These data structures are sometimes called “containers” or “collections” because they contain a collection of individual items. These structures cover a wide variety of common programming situations. In this recipe, we’ll look at how we can update a set by... Read more

Retrieving Webpages Through Python Programming

Modeling R Tools & Languages Web Scrapingposted by ODSC Community July 22, 2020

This article discusses retrieving web pages through Python programming. The internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), is probably the most prominent source of information today. Most of that information is retrievable through HTTP. HTTP was invented originally to share pages of hypertext (hence th.e name Hypertext Transfer Protocol),... Read more

Using a Smoother in SQL

Tools & Languagesposted by Robert de Graaf June 29, 2020

A problem found throughout the world of data is how to distinguish signal from noise. When dealing with data that comes in a sequence, such as time-series data (the most familiar example but by no means the only example), a frequent method of dealing with the... Read more

An Introduction to AWS Networking – Virtual Private Cloud

Modeling Python Tools & Languages AWSposted by ODSC Community June 22, 2020

Cloud computing is one of the major trends in computing today and has been for many years. Public cloud providers have transformed the start-up industry and what it means to launch a service from scratch. We no longer need to build our own infrastructure; we can... Read more

A Data Pattern with an R data.table Solution.

Modeling R Tools & Languagesposted by Steve Miller April 17, 2020

Summary: This blog examines a loading pattern seen often with government-generated, web-accessible data. The data comprise millions of records across multiple text or csv files, generally demarcated by time. The files may present different, but overlapping, attributes, while much of the data has a character representation,... Read more

Data Manipulation in R

R Tools & Languages data manipulationposted by Antoine Soetewey April 17, 2020

Not all datasets are as clean and tidy as you would expect. Therefore, after importing your dataset into RStudio, most of the time you will need to prepare it before performing any statistical analyses. Data manipulation can even sometimes take longer than the actual analyses when the... Read more