There are plenty of reliable and open sources of data on the web. Datasets are freely released to the public domain by the likes of Kaggle, Google Cloud, and of course local & federal government. Like most things free and
November 19, 2018
Improve your AWS Lambda Workflow with Python-Lambda
Create and deploy AWS Lambda functions with ease in Python
In our series about building AWS APIs, we've covered a lot of ground around learning the AWS ecosystem. Now that we're all feeling a bit more comfortable, it may be time to let everybody in on the world's worst-kept secret:
Liberating Data from PDFs with Tabula and Pandas
Making 'open' data more open; use Pandas to extract data from PDFs.
Check out the accompanying GitHub repo for this article here.
Technically, the School District of Philadelphia's budget data for the 2019 fiscal year is "open". It is, after all, made available through the district's Open Data portal and is freely
Lynx Roundup, October 31st
Write better Python functions! Functional programming & Blockchain! Prescriptive Analytics!
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Crosstabs in Pandas! Diagnosing malfunctioning Lambdas! Event-driven systems!
Create a REST API Endpoint Using AWS Lambda
Use Python and MySQL to Build an Endpoint
Now that you know your way around API Gateway, you have the power to create vast collections of endpoints. If only we could get those endpoints to actually receive and return some stuff.
We'll create a GET function which will
Building an API with Amazon's API Gateway
Building APIs: The final frontier of cool-stuff-to-do-in-AWS
In our last adventure, we ventured off to create our very own cloud database by using Amazon's RDS service. We've also briefly covered the general concept behind what Lambda functions. In case you've already forgotten, Lambdas are basically just chunks