An Exploration Of Effective Pandas Practices With Matt Harrison - Episode 348

January 15, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on An Exploration Of Effective Pandas Practices With Matt Harrison - Episode 348

Pandas has grown to be a ubiquitous tool for working with data at every stage. It has become so well known that many people learn Python solely for the purpose of using Pandas. With all of this activity and the long history of the project it can be easy to find misleading or outdated information about how to use it. In this episode Matt Harrison shares his work on the book "Effective Pandas" and some of the best practices and potential pitfalls that you should know for applying Pandas in your own work.

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Generate Your Text Files With Python Using Cog - Episode 347

January 13, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Generate Your Text Files With Python Using Cog - Episode 347

Developers hate wasting effort on manual processes when we can write code to do it instead. Cog is a tool to manage the work of automating the creation of text inside another file by executing arbitrary Python code. In this episode Ned Batchelder shares the story of why he created Cog in the first place, some of the interesting ways that he uses it in his daily work, and the unique challenges of maintaining a project with a small audience and a well defined scope.

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A Friendly Approach To Regression Models For Programmers - Episode 346

January 2, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on A Friendly Approach To Regression Models For Programmers - Episode 346

Statistical regression models are a staple of predictive forecasts in a wide range of applications. In this episode Matthew Rudd explains the various types of regression models, when to use them, and his work on the book "Regression: A Friendly Guide" to help programmers add regression techniques to their toolbox.

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Fast, Flexible, and Incremental Task Automation With doit - Episode 345

December 27, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Fast, Flexible, and Incremental Task Automation With doit - Episode 345

Every software project needs a tool for managing the repetitive tasks that are involved in building, running, and deploying the code. Frustrated with the limitations of tools like Make, Scons, and others Eduardo Schettino created doit to handle task automation in his own work and released it as open source. In this episode he shares the story behind the project, how it is implemented under the hood, and how you can start using it in your own projects to save you time and effort.

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The Technological, Business, and Sales Challenges Of Building The Ethical Ads Network - Episode 344

December 20, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on The Technological, Business, and Sales Challenges Of Building The Ethical Ads Network - Episode 344

Whether we like it or not, advertising is a common and effective way to make money on the internet. In order to support the work being done at Read The Docs they decided to include advertisements on the documentation sites they were hosting, but they didn't want to alienate their users or collect unnecessary information. In this episode David Fischer explains how they built the Ethical Ads network to solve their problem, the technical and business challenges that are involved, and the open source application that they built to power their network.

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