Taking care of business, one python script at a time
Posted by Duarte O.Carmo in articles
This guest post is the second article about using python tools to automate a report generation pipeline. If you have not read the first post you should probably review before continuing with this article.
Posted by Duarte O.Carmo in articles
This guest post that walks through a great example of using python to automate a report generating process. I think PB Python readers will enjoy learning from this real world example using python, jupyter notebooks, papermill and several other tools.
Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles
This article describes how to to use Microsoft Azure’s Cognitive Services Face API and python to identify, count and classify people in a picture. In addition, it will show how to use the service to compare two face images and tell if they are the same person. We will try it out with several celebrity look-alikes to see if the algorithm can tell the difference between two similar Hollywood actors. By the end of the article, you should be able to use these examples to further explore Azure’s Cognitive Services with python and incorporate them in your own projects.
Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles
On May 30th, I had the pleasure of presenting at the MinneAnalytics Data Tech Conference with @KatieKodes. Our talk was on “Evangelizing Python for Business”. Here is the summary of the talk:
Python’s simple structure has been vital to the democratization of data science. But as the field rushes forward, making splashy headlines about specialized new jobs, everyday Excel users remain unaware of the value that elementary building blocks of Python for data science can bring them at the office.
Join us for a conversation about bringing Python out of IT and into the business. We’ll share challenges and successes from writing tutorials, teaching classes, and advocating adoption among new users.
I really enjoyed the presentation and received a lot of positive feedback. As a result, I wanted to capture some of the ideas in a post so that the broader community could see it and generate some dialog on tips and techniques that have worked for you. The actual content in this blog is closely tied to our presentation but contain some additional idea and thoughts that I may want to expand on in future posts.
Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles
I have been working on a side project so I have not had as much time to blog. Hopefully I will be able to share more about that project soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to write an article about styling output in pandas. The API for styling is somewhat new and has been under very active development. It contains a useful set of tools for styling the output of your pandas DataFrames and Series. In my own usage, I tend to only use a small subset of the available options but I always seem to forget the details. This article will show examples of how to format numbers in a pandas DataFrame and use some of the more advanced pandas styling visualization options to improve your ability to analyze data with pandas.
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