Recording of my talk at the SF Python Meetup
The recording of my June talk at the SF Python Meetup (“A Streamlit App to Explore how America Changed During Covid”) is now online! I hope that you take a few minutes to watch the talk, play with the...
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Why I’m Switching to Polars
I recently decided to switch from Pandas to Polars for my Python projects that use dataframes. I came to this decision while taking a workshop on Polars last week: I found its syntax to be so intuitive...
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How Much Python Do Data Scientists Need To Know?
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about Polars, a new dataframe library in Python that is both incredibly fast and easy to use. While the post was well-received, I did get some push-back on it. The...
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A Guide to Contributing to Open Source Python Packages
I recently made my first contribution to an established Python package (link). When I shared this milestone with friends I realized that many of them are interested in doing something similar but don’t...
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New Project: hometown_analysis
Over the weekend I started a new project: an analysis of how my hometown has changed over time. I am calling the project hometown_analysis and the github repo for it is here. If this project interests...
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New Python Functions for Working with Multi-Year ACS Data
As part of my hometown_analysis project I’ve written some new functions for working with multi-year data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The functions are download_multiyear, graph_multiyear...
View ArticleChoroplethr is Scheduled to be Archived from CRAN
I was just notified by CRAN that choroplethr is scheduled to be archived on February 12. The reason is that choroplethr depends on the acs package, and the acs package is being archived. Apparently...
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Today the R package acs was “archived” from CRAN. This led to the choroplethr package (which I maintain) also being “archived”. I write “archived” in quotes because CRAN stands for “Comprehensive R...
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New Parameter to `download_multiyear`
In a previous post I demonstrated how to use three Python functions I wrote to work with multi-year data from the American Community Survey (ACS): download_multiyear, graph_multiyear and...
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Using Python to Measure Immigration Trends
I recently finished a project that uses Python and the American Community Survey (ACS) to measure immigration in the town I grew up in. This post provides an overview of the results. If you are...
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