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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.
From CSVs to Tables: Infer Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

From CSVs to Tables: Infer Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

The quest to never explicitly set a table schema ever again.
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Jan 23, 2019 • 9 mins
Big Data
Military units attacking a hosted Tableau Server instance

Hostile Extraction of Tableau Server Data

Say no to proprietary software constraints. Say no to vendor lock. Say yes to freedom.
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Jan 17, 2019 • 10 mins
Tableau
Psycopg2: PostgreSQL & Python the Old Fashioned Way

Psycopg2: PostgreSQL & Python the Old Fashioned Way

Connect to a PostgreSQL database and execute queries in Python using the Psycopg2 library.
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Jan 15, 2019 • 8 mins
PostgreSQL
Database in a lab

Databases in Python Made Easy with SQLAlchemy

Leverage the iconic SQLAlchemy Python library to effortlessly handle database connections and queries in software.
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Jan 9, 2019 • 10 mins
SQLAlchemy
Tableau's REST API: Turning Tableau into an ETL Pipeline GUI

Tableau's REST API: Turning Tableau into an ETL Pipeline GUI

Organizing a heist on Tableau Server to reclaim workbook data.
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Dec 29, 2018 • 8 mins
Tableau
Bundle & Serve Frontend JS & Styles in Flask

Serve Frontend JavaScript & Stylesheets in Flask

Build a frontend for your Flask application with Flask-Assets: a Flask add-on for compiling Javascript and serving stylesheets from LESS/SASS preprocessors.
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Dec 22, 2018 • 8 mins
Flask
Organize Flask Apps with Blueprints

Organize Flask Apps with Blueprints

Structure your Flask app as a collection of modules. Use Flask Blueprints to organize your app by separation of concerns.
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Dec 20, 2018 • 11 mins
Flask
A Factory in Which Flask Applications are Created

Demystifying Flask’s "Application Factory"

Create a Flask app using the 'Application Factory' pattern. Learn what an application context is and how to build large-scale apps properly.
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Dec 19, 2018 • 6 mins
Flask
Geocoding Raw Datasets for Mapbox

Geocoding Raw Datasets for Mapbox

Use the Mapbox Python SDK to transform a collection of addresses into lat/long coordinates.
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Dec 18, 2018 • 8 mins
Mapbox
End-to-End Feature Development with MongoDB Atlas

End-to-End Feature Development with MongoDB Atlas

Using functions, webhooks, and values to utilize external APIs.
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Dec 14, 2018 • 6 mins
NoSQL
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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
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  • 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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