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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.
Pandas DataFrames Saving the World

Using Hierarchical Indexes With Pandas

Use Panda's multi-index to create smarter datasets. Speed up your workflow by easily selecting and aggregating related data.
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May 28, 2019 • 13 mins
Pandas
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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Series'

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