fork() can magically make your program do things twice. Don’t believe me? Let’s run this small program and see for ourselves. Create a file called fork.py and save the following code in it. (more…)

How to create a reporting deck aggregating data from various sources, using Python and Google Slides. (more…)

An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib - rougier/scientific-visualization-book... (more…)

In languages like Ocaml, Haskell, type systems will often help you along the way of programming. Catch errors, warn incomplete guards. In the end, maintain invariants so that minimize ill-formed actions of the running program. (more…)

Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization etc. It also comes with Hadoop support built in. ... (more…)