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Todd Birchard

Todd Birchard

New York City
Wasted youth as a Product Manager, enjoying life as a Lead Software Engineer. Happily retired from rapidly propping up doomed startups. Focused on creating meaningful work and relationships.
Flask Application Architecture Including a Redis Instance

User Session Data with Flask-Session & Redis

Store user session data with Flask-Session & Redis for a fast, reliable, cloud-based data store.
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May 27, 2019 • 7 mins
Flask
Reshaping Pandas DataFrames

Reshaping Pandas DataFrames

A guide to DataFrame manipulation using groupby, melt, pivot tables, pivot, transpose, and stack.
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May 20, 2019 • 12 mins
Pandas
Structured Streaming in PySpark

Structured Streaming in PySpark

Become familiar with building a structured stream in PySpark using the Databricks interface.
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May 13, 2019 • 8 mins
Spark
Fixing your NPM Installation

Fixing your NPM Installation

Resolve a common NPM issue where users receive EACCES error messages upon NPM library installation.
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May 6, 2019 • 6 mins
NodeJS
Becoming Familiar with Apache Kafka and Message Queues

Becoming Familiar with Apache Kafka and Message Queues

Getting to know Apache Kafka: a horizontally scalable event streaming platform. Learn what makes Kafka critical to high-volume low-latency data pipelines.
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May 4, 2019 • 6 mins
Apache
Data Visualization With Seaborn and Pandas

Data Visualization With Seaborn and Pandas

Create beautiful data visualizations out-of-the-box with Python’s Seaborn.
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Apr 29, 2019 • 13 mins
Pandas
Cleaning PySpark DataFrames

Cleaning PySpark DataFrames

Easy DataFrame cleaning techniques ranging from dropping rows to selecting important data.
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Apr 27, 2019 • 18 mins
Spark
Transforming PySpark DataFrames

Transforming PySpark DataFrames

Apply transformations to PySpark DataFrames such as creating new columns, filtering rows, or modifying string & number values.
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Apr 26, 2019 • 15 mins
Spark
Learning Apache Spark with PySpark & Databricks

Learning Apache Spark with PySpark & Databricks

Get started with Apache Spark in part 1 of our series, where we leverage Databricks and PySpark.
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Apr 25, 2019 • 13 mins
Spark
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Getting Started With Wagtail CMS

Manage your Django app with Wagtail CMS: one of the cleanest and friendliest CMS layers available for Django.
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Apr 21, 2019 • 6 mins
Python
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Series'

Data Analysis with Pandas 11
Build Flask Apps 11
Learning Apache Spark 6
Google Cloud Architecture 6
Mastering SQLAlchemy 4
GraphQL Tutorials 4
Welcome to SQL 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
Web Scraping With Python 2
Python Concurrency with Asyncio 2
Getting Started with Django 2
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  • Build Flask Apps
  • Learning Apache Spark
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  • Mastering SQLAlchemy
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  • Welcome to SQL
  • Working with MySQL
  • Mapping Data with Mapbox
  • Web Scraping With Python
  • Python Concurrency with Asyncio
  • Getting Started with Django
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