Helpful Tips for Attending Your First Open Source Sprint — Let’s face it: getting a great score on a Kaggle competition doesn’t require adherence to PEP8 or really any other software development best practices. And yet, code is our craft, and at some point in your career you may want or need to learn to write production-level code. …

Survival analysis refers to a suite of statistical techniques developed to infer “lifetimes”, or time-to-event series, without having to observe the event of interest for every subject in your training set. …

This article takes inspiration from Andrew Gadius’ blog on the same topic, using updated libraries and Python 3 to achieve a similar effect. If you do not already have a working environment, check out Part One of this two-part blog post. …

Get started with open-source spatial analysis in Python can be tricky. For one, there’s many possible libraries from which to choose, of varying and overlapping functionality but not enough cross-compatibility. …

So you saw the latest Stack Overflow chart of popularity of new languages, and — deciding maybe there’s something to this “big data” trend after all — you feel it’s time to get familiar with Apache Spark. Sure, you…