Posts tagged intermediate
pandas Groupby: split-?-combine
- 21 September 2022
- English
When choosing what groupby operations to run, pandas offers many options. Namely, you can choose to use one of these three:
agg or aggregate
pandas Groupby: split-?-combine
- 21 September 2022
- English
When choosing what groupby operations to run, pandas offers many options. Namely, you can choose to use one of these three:
agg or aggregate
Unconventional Pandas: Colormaps
- 14 September 2022
- English
Hello everyone! We have some exciting events coming up, including a NEW seminar series and a code review workshop series. In our brand new seminar series, we will share with you some of the hardest problems we have had to solve in pandas and NumPy (and, in our bonus session on September 16th, hard problems that we have had to solve in Matplotlib!). Then, next month starting October 12th, we will be holding our first ever “No Tears Code Review,” where we’ll take attendees througha a code review that will actually help them gain insight into their code and cause meaningful improvements to their approach.
Let’s get to the exciting content!
Simplifying Logic In Your Python Code
- 13 July 2022
Last week I took a deeper look into some ideas covering boolean logic and how we can derive expressions from truth tables. In that same spirit, I wanted to share my absolute favorite example from my seminar on logic where I covered expression simplification and how it can be used to simplify valid Python flow control statement expressions. Additionally, this approach enabled us to determine whether specific branches were unsolvable meaning that there are branches of code that can never be executed due to a poorly formed conditional statement.
Since we covered how to use The simplify_logic function from SymPy to simplify boolean expressions last week, I wanted to dive straight into parsing Python code using the built-in Abstract Syntax Trees (ast) module. This module exists to parse Python code according to its own grammar rules in a programmatic manner. We can essentially represent valid Python code as a graph of nodes, accounting for various expressions and statements while also inspecting those aspects a little further- and even injecting some custom processing behavior.
Karnaugh Maps In Pandas
- 06 July 2022
As many of you know, I held a session on Logic this past month as part of “All the Computer Science You Never Took in College”. While I have never taken a computer science class in my life, I resonated with many of these concepts as things that I had encountered
A fun example that I presented used pandas to simplify a boolean algebra expression via a Karnaugh map. Karnaugh maps are useful tabular representations of boolean expressions that we can use to visually simplify this expression to a disjunctive form.
Decorators: Reinventing the Wheel
- 28 May 2022
- English
Hey everyone, welcome to another week of Camerons Corner! This is going to be my last post on decorators for a little while, so I wanted to take some time and expand on what packages you might see generators in and how I would implement them if I had to from scratch. In this post, I’m going to reinvent the wheel- that is you’ll see code I’ve written to replicate popular decorators from many third party packages. I am aiming to replicate only the core functionality of these decorator patterns in order to better highlight that these mechanisms are not something magical. There is real code underlying these patterns that enable unique design patterns.
When writing these examples, I only looked at various documentation pages & examples that use these decorators. No source code was examined or copied.
Pandas - What Else Can You .groupby?
- 02 March 2022
- English
Hey there! Welcome to the first DUTC newsletter of March 2022! We have had an action packed start to the year and are eager to keep the trainings coming. Next month, in March, we are unveiling a new lineup of weekly seminars titled: Confident Queries & Stronger SQL. Where we will help to not only refine your SQL skills, but also but also convey the underlying framework and mental models that power the most commonly used database querying language in the world. And if that isn’t enough to get excited about, then you should be excited for my next presentation where I’ll be comparing Pandas vs SQL to address the similarities and differences between these tools. What types of analyses are possible with either tool, how often do they overlap, and when they do- which one should I use? All of these questions and more will be answered this March! So make sure you register now for our SQL seminar series.
Not only do we have SQL sessions upcoming, but we also have an upcoming Developing Expertise in Python and pandas course this April 18-21! Our developing expertise courses are easily my favorite content we offer. The ability to sit down in a small group and address problems in a paired-programming environment provides the most impactful form of learning. Not only do you get to ask any question about syntax, concepts, and approaches- but you can do so in a safe environment while learning best practices within the PyData stack. If you want to bridge the gap from an intermediate Python programmer to become an expert Pythonista (RUN THIS TERMINOLOGY BY JAMES), then I can not recommend this course enough. We work tirelessly to create a balanced and custom curriculum to meet the goals of all of our attendees.