Category: Python
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Poor Dude's Janky Bluesky Feed Reader CLI Via R & Python
Lynn (of TITAA and general NLP wizardy fame) was gracious enough to lend me a Bluesky invite, so I could claim my handle on yet-another social media site. I'm still wary of it (as noted in one of this week's Drops ), but the AT protocol —…
Using WebR + Pyodide To Fill In The (Temporary) Package Gaps
I won't wax long and poetic here since I've already posted the experiment that has all the…
Creating A Custom MaxMind mmdb File For Cloud Provider Ranges
I've been wanting to create a custom MaxMind mmdb file for alternate IPv4 range classifications for a while, and finally had an opportunity to do so for the $DAYJOB. MaxMind mmdb files are small and easy to work with and provide lightning…
Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: "Why Can't Johnny Code?")
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and you should read both before…
Digging into mbox details: A tale of tm & reticulate
I had to processes a bunch of emails for a $DAYJOB task this week and my "default setting" is to use R for pretty much everything (this should come as no surprise). Treating mail as data is not an uncommon task and many R packages exist…
Knit directly to jupyter notebooks from RStudio
Did you know that you can completely replace the "knitting" engine in R Markdown documents? Well, you…
quotebox - An NPR-like Embedded Twitter Quote Generator
I'm an avid NPR listener also follow a number of their programs and people on Twitter. I really dig their \quotable\ tweets. Here's a sample of a recent…
nizdos - Nest Thermometer Notifications And Data Logging In Python
I've had a Nest thermometer for a while now and it's been an overall positive experience. It's given me more visibility into our heating/cooling system usage, patterns and preferences; plus, it actually saved us money last…
My Picks From #PyCon2013
A huge thanks to the speakers and conference organizers for making these resources freely available, especially to those of us who were not able to attend the…
Slopegraphs in R
If you even remotely follow this blog, you'll see that I'm kinda obsessed with slopegraphs . While I'm pretty happy with my Python implementation , I do quite a bit of data processing & data visualization in R these days and had a few free…