Data is the core of predictive modeling, visualization, and analytics. Unfortunately, the needed data is not always readily available to the user, it is most often unstructured. The biggest source of data is the Internet, and with programming, we can extr... (more…)

The following is an account of my own experience with Python. Because that experience has been so positive, it is an unabashed attempt to promote the use of Python for general scientific research and development. About four years ago, I dropped MATLAB i... (more…)

A rant on sacrificing performance for productivity. (more…)

In this article we see how to use Spark Streaming from Python to process data from Kafka. Jupyter Notebooks are used to make the prototype code available.

Python is a great language for data analysis. pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-leve... (more…)