In this tutorial we'll dive in Topic Mining. We'll analyze a dataset of newsfeed extracted from more than 60 sources. We'll show how to process it, analyze it and extract visual clusters from it. We'll be using great python tools for interactive visualiza... (more…)

Why programming? Programming is a skill that all psychology students should learn. I can think of so many reasons on why, including automating boring stuff, and practicing problem solving skills th… (more…)

At Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using… (more…)

Lately Grumpy has received some attention on reddit. YouTube Engineering showed a blog plost (Grumpy) which apparently proved that grumpy scaled much better then CPython on a Fibonacci benchmark. I felt like repeating this microbenchmark with Python to ch...

One of the many allures of Twitter is that you can tweet at your favorite celebrity and (maybe) get a response. Still though, tweeting isn’t quite as intimate as trading text messages. So we thought it’d be fun to use Markov Chains, Programmable SMS, and ... (more…)