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Beyond Numpy Arrays in Python: Preparing the ecosystem for GPU, distributed, and sparse arrays

Python Tools & Languagesposted by Matthew Rocklin June 12, 2018

Executive Summary In recent years Python’s array computing ecosystem has grown organically to support GPUs, sparse, and distributed arrays. This is wonderful and a great example of the growth that can occur in decentralized open source development. However to solidify this growth and apply it across... Read more

Intelligently Assisted Form Fields with Henosis

Python Tools & Languagesposted by Valentino Constantinou June 11, 2018

Filling Out Forms Isn’t Fun Online forms are the worst. The often-long, sometimes multi-page forms can be a time-consuming and laborious process to fill out. Almost any other task is more enjoyable, even with the occasional prize drawing or other form of incentive. While large forms can... Read more

Predicting code bug risk with git metadata

Platforms Python Tools & Languagesposted by Civis Analytics Team May 2, 2018

One of the perks of working at Civis is the quarterly ‘Hack Time’. For one week each quarter, you get to explore an offbeat idea of your choice and then present the results to your colleagues. This past quarter I spent my time exploring some off-label... Read more

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