If you’ve done much Python development you’re probably familiar with importing dependencies using pip, or even easy_install, if you’ve been at this for awhile. Whether you were aware of it or not… (more…)

I’ve been writing Ruby code for the past 10+ years, and recently due to my masters courses, I’ve been writing a lot of Python. While there are many differenc... (more…)

Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at... (more…)

Recently, I came across a resource that allowed me to download the entire collection of UTZOO NetNews Archive of the earliest USENET posts. These were essentially the earliest available discussions posted to the Internet by people working at various Unive... (more…)

With this follow-along Python project, you'll build a script to calculate grades for a class using pandas. The script will quickly and accurately calculate grades from a variety of data sources. You'll see examples of loading, merging, and saving data wit... (more…)