Shuffle is a key primitive in large-scale data processing applications. The difficulty of large-scale shuffle has inspired the development of many specialized shuffle systems. While these systems greatly improve shuffle performance and reliability, they c... (more…)

In this episode, we take a look at python’s defaultdict function and Counter class in the collections library. 00:00 - Introduction 00:22 - Creating events 0... (more…)

It's the official release of bar_chart_race, a python package for creating animated bar chart races. (more…)

Even if you're in a terrible situation, you should probably try to learn from it. You never know if your purpose in live is to actually serve as a warning to others as that "Demotivational" poster puts it. (more…)

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science. (more…)