You Don’t Take Notes as Well as You Think, and Journaling is Important.

You Don’t Take Notes as Well as You Think, and Journaling is Important.

Even the most agile project team needs to document the various aspects of what they are trying to accomplish. If you prescribe to more rigid development cycles and continual improvement models, there seems to be a template and detailed process for making tons of documents that don’t seem to bear much fruit. While applicable at times, it is hard to draft a House of Quality structure when your boss gives you 3 days to put a project timeline together. We…

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Simple Password Management with Python

Simple Password Management with Python

Many uses of python involve connections to APIs, databases, or hosted information. Embedding a password in a script is always a bad idea. You can easily forget it is there, and inadvertently share confidential information with others. This is especially important if you regularly are posting content to a public GitHub. CSV files Storing important content doesn’t need to be complicated. Simply creating a CSV file that has the information you need in tabular format will certainly do the job….

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Pandas Basics: Timeseries

Pandas Basics: Timeseries

Check out the new video on timeseries, completing the tutorials of how to segment data for more effective aggregation. In the first two videos I showed how to do this in excel and libre office, the next video uses more technical methods. This video uses the pandas library with some help from datetime to slice up our data following the previous example. Pandas will be a common tool for data munging and is very versatile. The methods shown in this…

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How to use python with databases

How to use python with databases

Today we are going to explore some of the ways you can connect to sql databases with python. A few examples of why you would want to do this are: Querying large data sets without the need to store the data in an intermediate step. To combine data from several disparate databases. To use as a wrapper for an application (sqlite, mariadb, etc) Extracting data from an application with a hosted database. Let’s dive in and explore the different ways…

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The apriori algorithm, an example of machine learning in python.

The apriori algorithm, an example of machine learning in python.

Machine learning isn’t a mythical beast that only appears every 6 years when you park a 2014 Toyota Prius next to a dumpster in Buford Wyoming. It is just a form of statistics that has gathered a lot of hype. It is about finding patterns in massive data sets, find a pattern and then apply that to something. There are a lot of different ways to find patterns and they are not necessarily complicated. Today I’m going to provide a…

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YouTube live and premiere comments, delivered fresh and daily!

YouTube live and premiere comments, delivered fresh and daily!

As a content creator you may be posting videos to premier or publish videos live. When doing so, would you like a record of the chat? This would allow you to analyze content and look for positive or negative reactions. If this interests you then pytchat is going to be a big help. First, the docs provide minimal help, the code they provide either gives you raw json format *****puke***** or requires you to wait eons to see the data….

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LibreOffice Calc Tutorial: Time Series Data

LibreOffice Calc Tutorial: Time Series Data

Check out the new video on Libre Calc, a great alternative to excel and google products. In this video we replicate the excel tutorial and show basic time series functions. I also pivot/visualize the data, and this is completed in a few simple steps. Why do I like Libre Calc? Its free, Microsoft office follows a SAS model and that’s not something I’m too fond of. Other free hosted material has access to your data, so if you want to…

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Comrades in Farms Episode 25 Appearance

Comrades in Farms Episode 25 Appearance

Don’t miss out on the live stream of episode 25 of Comrades in Farms, where Carleton and I discuss data visualization, deep dive into data mining and talk about reproducibility. Big shout out to the Farmacy Seeds Network for having me back on! Comrades In Farms on Truth Frequency Radio, Iheart, Tunedin, Talkstreamlive and Youtube. To hear the stream live at broadcast time via TFR goto https://tfrlive.com/listen-live/​ To hear previous epsiodes (up to 2 weeks old): https://tfrlive.com/farmacyseedsnetwork/​ We will be…

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Why Visualize Data? Anscombe’s quartet and the many lives that could have been saved…

Why Visualize Data? Anscombe’s quartet and the many lives that could have been saved…

Any intellectual worth their salt can clearly look at a data set and see trends, right? Why would we need to bother ourselves with the “prettying” of data, which provides the cold hard facts we are looking for? What if I told you that the difference between a good data presentation and a poor one, was the difference between someone living or dying? We need to visualize data to see the whole picture. Whether we are looking at temperature data,…

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