IBM has enabled Python to run on z/OS. Often touted as the great “glue language” because it can glue large software components together, Python is one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages. Python’s popularity is driven by it’s sim... (more…)

Let us do scripting with Python! Yay! Not only as an alternative to VBA, but also as an alternative to field functions (=SUM(A1:A2))... (more…)

After writing nearly 20 articles just about Python, I’ve decided to take some time to reflect on what... (more…)

(PyData Seattle Keynote; July 6 2017) The PyData ecosystem is vast and powerful, but it can be overwhelming to newcomers. In this talk I outline some of the history of *why* the Python data science space is the way it is, as well as *what* tools and te... (more…)

altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python... (more…)