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Beautiful Lies - in the good case charts can be unclear due to too much data, no distinct colors, missing labels etc. in a worse case it can be miss leading. Few tips and example…
Hello Dask - Dask is a few month old addition to the PyData toolbox. It aims to enable light-weighted parallel computation. The idea behind it is that it produces a graph, which…
rrrepo - at first glance it looked me like a checklist site and then I understood it is a repository of links. I tried to register, explore and create a site and I think they have…
Nba shots charts - Well, I'm in love :) I like visualizations, I like sports and this post gives both the motivation and the how -…
Yesterday I attended a " Music Information Retrieval from a Multicultural Perspective " meetup in SoundCloud offices. It was one of the most thought provoking meetups I have…
I have just read " Data Driven - creating a data culture " by Hilary Mason and DJ Patil. While computer science is considered a new science or a new discipline data science is…
Python neural network in 11 lines - the name is a bit misleading but nice DIY initiative. http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/ Python or R - The bottom line…
Diversity in tech? This post describe a black woman’s experience in the Stanford Computer Science Major. As part of TOA events I went to Zalando's diversity in tech panel last…
- Database debate·1 min
As part of the Berlin Tech Open Air events I want to the " Database debate " in DC Media networks. The two sides of the debate were Simon Willnauer, lead engineer of ElasticSearch…
Code management tools by AWS - in the last RE:INVENT event (October 2014) Amazon said that this year they are going to focus on new tools for code management and deployment. Now…
Three Useful Python Libraries for Startups - tl;dr this post suggest Whitenoise, Phonenumbers and Pdfki as 3 important packages for startups and requests and Python-dateutil as…
Spark Summit 2015 Highlights in Tweets - Spark summit was held in San Francisco this week (15-17 June). Euro-Spark summit will be held on 27-29 October call for papers is open.…
Interviewing as an art - Finding the smart, talented people with the right vibe for your company is always hard. Being on the other side is also hard. Not only in the sense of…
Pitfalls when mining Wikipedia - this research was done on a bit old data (2013) but it show quite easy way to clean wikipedia dumps. Although they suggest a way to repeat the…
Vis.js demo - (Yet another) Javascript visualization library. I love the relative graph approach, I find it easier for Python developers that d3.js (which I also like) -…
Making an exception but I really came across some interesting things - A\A Testing - well known idea in machine learning (train, cross-validation, test) and in other research best…
spaCy - yet another python library for text processing? maybe, haven't tried it but seems like another tool taking part in this growing world. I'm looking for a package that will…
Is Wikipedia a microcsmos of our world? News of 2014 as they are reflected in Wikipedia. http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/ Json as python modules…
Twitter analytics with Spark - I really enjoyed this post from several reasons. First because the need and the way that lead to the solution is clear and well explained. Second,…
- Common Crawl meetup·3 min
Yesterday I attended big data beers meetup . The meetup included 2 talks by Common Crawl employees - Lisa Green and Stephen Merity . Both talks was great and the connection…
Geeks pleasure - fulling math. Creating two images (and actually every type of document) with the same md5 hash.…
Today I was trying to run my first EMR, here are few lessons I learned during this day. I have previously run hadoop streaming mapreduce so I was familiar with the mapreduce state…
C3.JS - I have previously wrote a post about the importance of visualization in the skill set of data scientist. C3.js is a JavaScript chart library based on d3.js which seems at…
Gooey - Command line to application! Very cool. Works by mapping ArgumentParser to GUI objects. Very cool and make it easier to make instant tools to play around the office.…
You have a python dictionary, you want to get the value of specific key in the dictionary, so far so good, right? And then a KeyError - Traceback (most recent call last): File…