Python’s pickle module is a very convenient way to serialize and de-serialize objects. It needs no schema, and can handle arbitrary Python objects. But it has problems. This post briefly explains the problems. (more…)

Daily COVID-19 epidemiological data, piped in to friendly Pandas dataframes, growth modeling (:construction:) - willhaslett/covid-19-growth... (more…)

Nearly 20 years after the first release of Python 2 and 11 years after the first release of Python 3, the Python development community has retired Python 2.7, the last of the Python 2 series. This marks the end of all upstream support for Python 2, includ... (more…)

Python, one of the most popular scripting languages, is also one of the most preferred tools for data analysis and visualization. In addition to the broader Python developer community, there is also a significant group that uses Python to analyze data, dr... (more…)

Both the Python and R languages have developed robust ecosystems of open source tools and libraries that help data scientists of any skill level more easily perform analytical work.