Using Spark Streaming to meet a real-world requirement for filtering, enrichment, and aggregation of unbounded data from Apache Kafka...

I asked on Twitter if people would be interested in having me write down the history behind my decision to choose GitHub for Python's future development process and people said "yes"(some literally), hence this blog post. Background My heavy participation... (more…)

There’re a fairly large number of APIs offering real-time and historical currency exchange rate out there. currencylayer API is one of the best. It’s an easy-to-use JSON API supporting 168 currencies, delivering accurate, reliable and consistent currency ... (more…)

This talk will introduce the area of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and a basic introduction of its principles. It will use Python and some of its fundamental NLP packages, such as NLTK, to illustrate examples and topics, demonstrating how to get start... (more…)

Recently, I spent sometime writing out the code for a neural network in python from scratch, without using any machine learning libraries. It proved to be a pretty enriching experience and taught me a lot about how neural networks work, and what we can do... (more…)