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 15, 2018
Python
The language, the legend, the liberator. Includes Python hacks, tips, snippets and tutorials.
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
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
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
Creating Google Cloud Functions Running Python 3.7
GCP scores another victory by trivializing serverless functions
The more I explore Google Cloud's endless catalog of cloud services, the more I really like Google Cloud. This is why before moving forward, I'd like to be transparent that this blog has become little more than thinly veiled Google
Structuring your Flask App Like a Responsible Adult
Leverage Blueprints, Flask-Assets, and the Application Factory.
When we first started developing in Flask, most of us took the 5 lines of code in the quick-start guide and ran with it. Compared to every other web framework, getting a "Hello world" to flash on screen without being
Extract Nested Data From Complex JSON
Steal our code and never manually walk through JSON objects again
We're all data people here, so you already know the scenario: it happens perhaps once a day, perhaps 5, or even more. There's an API you're working with, and it's great. It contains all the information you're looking for, but
Reading and Writing to CSVs in Python
Playing with tabular data the native Python way.
Tables. Cells. Two-dimensional data. We here at Hackers & Slackers know how to talk dirty, but there's one word we'll be missing from our vocabulary today: Pandas.Before the remaining audience closes their browser windows in fury, hear me out.
Using Random Forests for Feature Selection with Categorical Features
Python helper functions for adding feature importance, and displaying them as a single variable.
Flask Routing & Sessions: A Subtle Symphony
With great flexibility comes great responsibility
It isn't often you find somebody sad or miserable enough to detail the inner workings of web framework features, such as sessions or routing. This is understandably so; we use frameworks because presumably hate dealing with these things from scratch.