This Time Is DifferentImagining the Future: Science Fiction Films through TimeA good science fiction films use the possible to help explain the human experience. I remember watching 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first…Jan 2, 2018Jan 2, 2018
This Time Is DifferentScraping Wikipedia with PythonThe truth about actual webscraping is that it’s a dying art, at least in its legal form. Gone are the days when one could freely pull…Dec 18, 20172Dec 18, 20172
This Time Is DifferentWhat is a t-test?This post is adapted from a presentation I was asked to give about the t-test, assuming a general audience with no prior knowledge.Nov 26, 2017Nov 26, 2017
This Time Is DifferentStrategies for handling missing values in your dataset in PandasMost real-world datasets will have missing values, and I previously talked about why you should worry about them. This post is more…Nov 25, 2017Nov 25, 2017
This Time Is DifferentWhy you should worry about dropping missing valuesAlmost any dataset you encounter in the real world is going to have missing values, and they are a pain. Many software packages…Nov 25, 2017Nov 25, 2017
This Time Is DifferentRemoving characters before, after, and in the middle of stringsWhen working with real-world datasets in Python and pandas, you will need to remove characters from your strings *a lot*. I find these…Oct 30, 20171Oct 30, 20171
This Time Is DifferentEther, or, Am I a Fool?In February I made my first purchase of a cryptocurrency called Ether for $15.46. As I write today, almost four months later, Ether trades…Jun 8, 2017Jun 8, 2017
This Time Is DifferentIntroduction“The investor who says, ‘This time is different,’ when in fact it’s virtually a repeat of an earlier situation, has uttered among the four…Jun 8, 2017Jun 8, 2017
