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Pandas Examples: Plotting Date/Time data with Matplotlib/Pyplot

24 Apr 2022   Examples on how to plot time-series or general date or time data from a pandas dataframe, using matplotlib behind the scenes.

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If you use Git you should be very Liberal in Deleting Stale Code

21 Apr 2022   On the costs of keeping stale code around and how to recover old code using git, if needed.

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spark

Apache Spark Examples: Dataframe and Column Aliasing

29 Dec 2021   Examples on how to add and work with dataframe and column aliases on Spark SQL. Examples using Scala. Also includes common error messages and common questions.

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soft-skills

How to Ask for Tech Support

24 Dec 2021   Asking questions and requesting support the right way, to increase the odds your problems will actually get solved, while maintaining good relations with support staff.

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software-engineering

Complex Code is Technical Debt, and it will Charge Interest

28 Nov 2021   Why complex code is technical debt and how it hurts you, your teams and your company. And what to do about it.

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JupyterLab: Sane Defaults and Extensions for Basic DS Work

08 Nov 2021   Minimum Viable Jupyterlab configuration for reasonably pleasant DS work in Python

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git

Git Examples: Searching the Git History

01 Nov 2021   Examples on how to search the git logs and history for modified files, modified code, how to retrieve past files from the history, etc.

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bash

Bash Options with Set: Examples and reference

31 Oct 2021   Examples and reference for most commonly-used bash options you can set/unset with the set builtin.

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Paper Summary: Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-text Transformer

29 Aug 2021   Summary of the 2020 article "Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-text Transformer" by Raffel et al. AKA the T5 article.

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python files

Python 3 Examples: Creating, Deleting, Updating directories

08 Aug 2021   Lots of examples on how to create, remove, change and otherwise interact with directories with Python 3+ (Assuming unix-like Operating Systems such as Linux and MacOS)

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