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Oct 4, 2019

60-Second Guide to Making a Pull Request

The mechanics of contributing to open source software — This is intended to be a step-by-step reference for uploading your changes to an open source library, perhaps as the result of a sprint. In Github-speak, we would call this “making a pull request.” Fork the repository to your own GitHub account. Clone the fork to your computer using HTTPS…

Github

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How to Make a Pull Request
How to Make a Pull Request
Github

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·Apr 19, 2018

Become a Better Data Scientist by Contributing to Open Source

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. …

Open Source

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Become a Better Data Scientist by Contributing to Open Source
Become a Better Data Scientist by Contributing to Open Source
Open Source

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·Apr 10, 2018

Survival Analysis to Explore Customer Churn in Python

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. …

Startup

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Survival Analysis to Explore Customer Churn in Python
Survival Analysis to Explore Customer Churn in Python
Startup

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Feb 12, 2018

Reading Shapefile ZIPs from a URL in Python 3

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. …

Data Science

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Reading Shapefile ZIPs from a URL in Python 3
Reading Shapefile ZIPs from a URL in Python 3
Data Science

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Feb 12, 2018

Spatial Libraries in Python 3: A Working Set-up for Windows

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. …

Data Science

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Spatial Libraries in Python 3: A Working Set-up for Windows
Spatial Libraries in Python 3: A Working Set-up for Windows
Data Science

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Jan 28, 2018

Installing Apache Spark (PySpark): The missing “quick start” guide for Windows

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…

Hadoop

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Installing Apache Spark (PySpark): The missing “quick start” guide for Windows
Installing Apache Spark (PySpark): The missing “quick start” guide for Windows
Hadoop

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