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0.4.0 introduces parallel file uploads using Python's multiprocessing module. This enables huge speed-ups for first time uploads. Using testdata with 50 files at 500kb each upload finished in 1m9s using 0.3.1 and in just 10s using 0.4.0.

Back in 2008 Natalie Downe and I deployed what today we would call a microservice: json-head, a tiny Google App Engine app that allowed you to make an HTTP head ... (more…)

This notebook documents the partipant selection procedure for Python in Astronomy 2017. For privacy reasons, this notebook uses data that has been completely randomized within categories, thus no candidate is individually identifiable (and names and othe... (more…)

Both the Python and R languages have developed robust ecosystems of open source tools and libraries that help data scientists of any skill level more easily perform analytical work.