Plot.ly; Finally typing those letters into a post headline tastes like a strange cocktail of pride and embarrassment. Plot.ly sits at the core of some of the most influential products I’ve had the chance to work on, which remain serving a hodgepodge of Fintech and humanitarian clients well to this day. This begs the question: what the

This wouldn't be a proper data blog unless we spend a vast majority of our time talking about cleaning data. Chances are if you're pursuing analysis that's groundbreaking (or worthwhile), we're probably starting with some ugly, untapped information. It turns out Mapbox has an API specifically for this purpose: the Mapbox Geocoding API.

Geocoding is a blanket term for turning

There's a trend among those using Jupyter Notebooks (or equivalent) which leads me to believe humanity is coming to an important realization: Google Maps, as an API is expensive.

Regardless if Google maps is embedded as a consumer-facing widget, or part of a routine data-pipeline, a single surge of high-traffic can leave enterprises with price tags in the hundreds of

The first part of understanding any type of software is taking a glance at its file structure. It may seem like an outlandish and redundant statement to make to a generation who grew up on GUIs. GitHub is essentially no more than a GUI for Git, so it’s unsurprisingly that one of the largest company to follow a similar