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What’s Up? Python’s underappreciated dunder (python__new__) EDIT: Based on valueable reader feedback, I’ve put my rambling musings on my reasons for writing this tutorial at the END instead of the BEGINNING. tl;dr, I found little info out there on the __new__() dunder method in class definition, so I decided to write my most typical (but … Read more whatsnewdunder
I made a thing. I’m sharing the thing. pytabby on GitHub pytabby on PyPI pytabby on ReadTheDocs For 99% of its life the repo had a boring name (tabbedconsolemenus), but the day I did the initial release, I threw caution to the wind and named it pytabby. Basically, it’s a utility that allows you to … Read more pytabby a tabbed menu system for console based python programs
Data science is a rather fuzzily defined field; some of the definitions I’ve heard are: “Work that takes more programming skills than most statisticians have, and more statistics skills than a programmer has.” “Applied statistics, but in San Francisco.” “The field of people who decide to print ‘Data Scientist’ on their business cards and get … Read more Battle of data science venn diagrams
All of the so-called “Vatican” Ashley Madison clients are Virginians or Canadians with fat fingers In the week or so since the Ashley Madison hack data dump, there have been many news stories that have reported its contents uncritically, by journalists who have obviously never seen the data. One of the characterizations of the data … Read more all of so called vatican ashley madison
Most characteristic words in pro- and anti-feminist tweets Here are, based on my analysis (which I’ll get to in a moment) clouds of the 40 words most characteristic of anti-feminist and pro-feminist tweets, respectively. anti-feminist pro-feminist Word clouds my may be only semi-quantitative but they have other virtues, like recognizability and explorability. For the purists, … Read more Most characteristic words in pro and
Most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 Chart first, then explanation (click to enlarge): The inspiration for this post came from my being too lazy to set my iPod to shuffle, and then noticing it played a bunch of songs in a row from the 1930s and ’40s that started with the letters … Read more most decade specific words in billboard