Python for Data Science: ODSC Guides, Tutorials, and Articles

Dask Release 0.17.2

Python Tools & Languagesposted by Matthew Rocklin April 10, 2018

This work is supported by Anaconda Inc. and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative from the Moore Foundation. I’m pleased to announce the release of Dask version 0.17.2. This is a minor release with new features and stability improvements. This blogpost outlines notable changes since the 0.17.0 release on February... Read more

EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS – WHEN TO CHOOSE R, PYTHON, TABLEAU OR A COMBINATION

Platforms Python R Tools & Languages Data Science|Data Visualization|Programming Language|Python|Rposted by Scott Stoltzman March 14, 2018

Not all data analysis tools are created equal. Recently, I started looking into data sets to compete in Go Code Colorado (check it out if you live in CO). The problem with such diversity in data sets is finding a way to quickly visualize the data and do... Read more

Craft Minimal Bug Reports

Python Tools & Languages Programming Languageposted by Matthew Rocklin March 7, 2018

Following up on a post on supporting users in open source this post lists some suggestions on how to ask a maintainer to help you with a problem. You don’t have to follow these suggestions. They are optional. They make it more likely that a project maintainer will... Read more

Streaming in Python Prototype

Python Tools & Languages Programming Language|Pythonposted by Matthew Rocklin February 25, 2018

This work is supported by Continuum Analytics, and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative from the Moore Foundation. This blogpost is about experimental software. The project may change or be abandoned without warning. You should not depend on anything within this blogpost. This week I built a small streaming library for... Read more

WHAT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE USED MOST ON WEEKENDS?

Platforms Python R Tools & Languages Data analysis|Kaggle Analysis|Programming Language|SQLposted by Julia Silge February 22, 2018

Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog. Check out the code for this analysis on Kaggle. For me, the weekends are mostly about spending time with my family, reading for leisure, and working on the open-source projects I am involved in. These weekend projects overlap with the work... Read more

2017 Data Science in Review, Topic Modeling

Data Visualization Modeling Python Statistics Tools & Languages Data Mining|topic modellingposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC February 1, 2018

This blogpost is about topic modeling using data from this blog, opendatascience.com. From this, combined with the most visited articles of the year, we will generate the most popular topics of 2017. Last year, we did something similar with popular articles streamed through twitter using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to... Read more

On Taking Things Too Seriously: Holiday Edition

Python Tools & Languages Python|Sports Analyticsposted by Will McGinnis January 7, 2018

For some reason Atlanta got a pretty significant amount of snow yesterday, and because of that I’ve been mostly stuck at home. When faced with that kind of time on hand, sometimes I spend too much time on things that don’t really matter all that much.... Read more

On Machine Learning and Programming Languages

Modeling Predictive Analytics Python R Statistics Tools Tools & Languages Juliaposted by Mike Innes December 13, 2017

This article was co-written by Mike Innes (Julia Computing), David Barber (UCL), Tim Besard (UGent), James Bradbury (Salesforce Research), Valentin Churavy (MIT), Simon Danisch (MIT), Alan Edelman (MIT), Stefan Karpinski (Julia Computing), Jon Malmaud (MIT), Jarrett Revels (MIT), Viral Shah (Julia Computing), Pontus Stenetorp (UCL) and... Read more

Ripyr: Sampled Metrics on Datasets Using Python’s Asuncio

Python Tools Tools & Languages Pythonposted by Will McGinnis December 13, 2017

Today I’d like to introduce a little python library I’ve toyed around with here and there for the past year or so, ripyr. Originally it was written just as an excuse to try out some newer features in modern python: asyncio and type hinting. The whole... Read more

Web Scraping with Python — Part Two — Library overview of requests, urllib2, BeautifulSoup, lxml, Scrapy, and more!

Python Tools & Languagesposted by Jack Schultz December 7, 2017

Welcome to part 2 of the Big-Ish Data general web scraping writeups! I wrote the first one a little bit ago, got some good feedback, and figured I should take some time to go through some of the many Python libraries that you can use for scraping,... Read more