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Introduction to Asynchronous Programming in Python
In a synchronous environment, a program execution follows a set of operations sequentially. The execution flow will start processing a step and wait for it to return a result before proceeding to the next one. With asynchronous programming, we can use the lag time required by... Read more
Python Structural Pattern Matching — Top 3 Use Cases To Get You Started
Python’s equivalent of a switch statement is finally here in Python 3.10. It hides behind a fancy name of Structural Pattern Matching, and does what you’d expect and more. It packs support for working with primitive data types, sequences, and even classes and enums. Today I’ll show you how... Read more
How Open Source Developers Can Push the Universe’s Frontier
Editor’s note: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Albin is a speaker for ODSC Europe this June 14th-15th. Be sure to check out his talk, “Space Science with Python – Enabling Citizen Scientists,” there! 2009, a paper by Postberg et al. was published in Nature. The title: Sodium Salts in... Read more
Why the Best Time to Learn Python is Right Now
Python has been gaining popularity in the programming world for years thanks to its easy-to-learn syntax, and now it stands as one of the most widely used programming languages. Because of this, it has gained a reputation as the language of choice for data science and... Read more
Python Constants – Everything You Need to Know
Python Constants contribute to the dynamic and updatable characteristic of the design architecture, which is essential for any coding architecture. Providing a construction with these features is related to the fact that the code blocks can be understood and developed by someone else. To meet those... Read more
5 Easy SQL Tricks to Clean Dirty Data
Real-world data is almost always messy. And as a data scientist or analyst, you need to discover the facts about the data. To do so, the data must be tidy and free from errors. Hence, the very first step is to clean the data. Therefore, I... Read more
From Pandas to Features to Models to Predictions – A Deep Dive Into the Hopsworks APIs
When it comes to feature stores, there are two main approaches to feature engineering. One approach is to build a domain-specific language (DSL) that covers all the possible feature engineering steps (e.g., aggregations, dimensionality reduction, and transformations) that a data scientist might need. The second approach... Read more
Hopsworks 3.0: The Python-Centric Feature Store
Feature stores began in the world of Big Data, with Spark being the feature engineering platform for Michelangelo (the first feature store) and Hopsworks (the first open-source feature store). Nowadays, the modern data stack has assumed the role of Spark for feature stores – feature engineering... Read more
Embedding Interactive Python Plots on the Web
One of the most important steps in the Data Science pipeline is Data Visualization. In fact, thanks to Data Visualization, Data Scientists can be able to quickly gather insights about the data they have available and any possible anomaly. Traditionally, Data Visualization consisted of creating static... Read more
Top 9 Most Essential Python Libraries For Beginners
People worldwide know Python as the most used programming language to date. Major tech companies like Google, Amazon, Meta, Instagram, and Uber use Python for various applications. From web development to machine learning projects, Python is an essential tool in a data scientist’s kit. Many understand... Read more