Streamlit is one of those tools quickly becoming more and more popular among data scientists. Data scientists usually use conda or pip environments to separate and isolate the installed packages from one project to another. While this has proven to work, it also comes with certain challenges such as OS dependency, versioning, mobility, etc. Recently, a new alternative has come to light: using docker.

Data scientists typically work with different data types from various sources. One of these common data sources is SQL databases. Often neglected by data scientists, the SQL query itself can have a huge impact on their process, productivity, and proof-of-concept apps. — Many organizations have their data stored in relational databases in tabular format. For this reason, SQL is one of the most important languages data scientists can use to access, retrieve, filter, and even pre-process data to some degree.

Despite all the fancy and advanced data management solutions available on the market, spreadsheets are still very popular and heavily used in daily activities. Whether it be Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or any other spreadsheet platform, it can sometimes be cumbersome to import data from external sources. — Let’s discuss how to use JavaScript for Google Sheets to import data from external sources and web APIs efficiently.

Each day and every day we hear about blockchain technology, the cryptocurrency market, and very recently about NFTs, but still, it seems very technical to most of us. — It has been for a few years that companies and financial institutions started to investigate the benefits of blockchain and to see how they can leverage blockchain in their own business. Some of those studies remained open, some resulted in business plans, and some started initiatives for business improvements. Among…

How we get notifications from applications, data pipelines, or running processes as conveniently as possible. — Data scientists, like developers, may run or schedule long-running processes which can take up to several days to finish. We may have experienced moments where we check a process the next day, and we realize that halfway through the process, it stopped working or did not perform as expected. The…

How do you feel about your passport? This is the common story of traveling with a weak/powerless passport. — Today, Singapore and Germany have the most powerful passports and Afghanistan has the weakest among 199 countries (listed by passportindex.org). But how is it like traveling when you hold a weak passport? …

Democracy is known to be the best political system in the world but as long as it can work. — Democracy is a system of processing issues in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes. “Rule of the majority” is sometimes referred to as democracy. In a democracy, citizens exercise power through free and fair elections in which every citizen…