From moving to GitHub to the release of Python 3.6.0, 2016 has been an interesting year for the Python programming language. We had some uplifting moments like K Lars John’s keynote at Pycon and some…...

Github Actions is an API for cause and effect on GitHub, which became generally available on November 13, 2019. Actions lets you trigger a workflow in response to a number of different events. While I believe it is most commonly used for CI/CD pipelines, ... (more…)

We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)

In this tutorial we'll dive in Topic Mining. We'll analyze a dataset of newsfeed extracted from more than 60 sources. We'll show how to process it, analyze it and extract visual clusters from it. We'll be using great python tools for interactive visualiza... (more…)

Dynamically adding or overwriting an instance method in Python is rarely needed, but it's a good excuse to explore interesting aspects of the language that aren't always well known: the descriptor protocol, types.MethodType and partial function applicatio...