“Orders are Orders!” Ok – I so fell into another hole. This time it was using the assign method on a pandas data frame. It turns out that the assign method, which ostensibly […]
Adventures in Python #3
The iterrows Experience There are a number of ways to iterate over the rows of a Pandas data frame and without doubt the worst is to use the iterrows method. I didn’t […]
Adventures in Python #2
Two Paths to Comprehension? When I first learned about python’s list comprehensions I remember reading that the easiest way to think about them is as a rolled up for loop. But there’s […]
5 Things Data Scientists Need To Stop Saying…
“R is Better Than Python / Python is Better Than R” This is all over the Internet exhibiting all the standard tribal behavioural excesses. I’m not going to get into this one […]
Adventures in Python #1
Lately I’ve been getting re-acquainted with the boto libraries for interacting with AWS. The newest version is boto3 which is a more stable service oriented API – very different from the original […]