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Keep Your Code Clean And Maintainable Using Static Analysis With Flake8 - Episode 309

April 6, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Keep Your Code Clean And Maintainable Using Static Analysis With Flake8 - Episode 309

When you are writing code it is all to easy to introduce subtle bugs or leave behind unused code. Unused variables, unused imports, overly complex logic, etc. If you are careful and diligent you can find these problems yourself, but isn't that what computers are supposed to help you with? Thankfully Python has a wealth of tools that will work with you to keep your code clean and maintainable. In this episode Anthony Sottile explores Flake8, one of the most popular options for identifying those problematic lines of code....

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Make Your Code More Readable With The Magic Of Refactoring Using Sourcery - Episode 308

March 30, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Make Your Code More Readable With The Magic Of Refactoring Using Sourcery - Episode 308

Writing code that is easy to read and understand will have a lasting impact on you and your teammates over the life of a project. Sometimes it can be difficult to identify opportunities for simplifying a block of code, especially if you are early in your journey as a developer. If you work with senior engineers they can help by pointing out ways to refactor your code to be more readable, but they aren't always available. Brendan Maginnis and Nick Thapen created Sourcery to act as a full time...

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Be Data Driven At Any Scale With Superset - Episode 307

March 22, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Be Data Driven At Any Scale With Superset - Episode 307

Becoming data driven is the stated goal of a large and growing number of organizations. In order to achieve that mission they need a reliable and scalable method of accessing and analyzing the data that they have. While business intelligence solutions have been around for ages, they don't all work well with the systems that we rely on today and a majority of them are not open source. Superset is a Python powered platform for exploring your data and building rich interactive dashboards that gets the information that your...

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Practical Advice On Using Python To Power A Business - Episode 306

March 16, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Practical Advice On Using Python To Power A Business - Episode 306

Python is a language that is used in almost every imaginable context and by people from an amazing range of backgrounds. A lot of the people who use it wouldn't even call themselves programmers, because that is not the primary focus of their job. In this episode Chris Moffitt shares his experience writing Python as a business user. In order to share his insights and help others who have run up against the limits of Excel he maintains the site Practical Business Python where he publishes articles that help...

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Analyzing The Ecosystem of Python Data Companies With Tony Liu - Episode 305

March 9, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Analyzing The Ecosystem of Python Data Companies With Tony Liu - Episode 305

There are a large and growing number of businesses built by and for data science and machine learning teams that rely on Python. Tony Liu is a venture investor who is following that market closely and betting on its continued success. In this episode he shares his own journey into the role of an investor and discusses what he is most excited about in the industry. He also explains what he looks at when investing in a business and gives advice on what potential founders and early employees of...

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Go From Notebook To Pipeline For Your Data Science Projects With Orchest - Episode 304

March 2, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Go From Notebook To Pipeline For Your Data Science Projects With Orchest - Episode 304

Jupyter notebooks are a dominant tool for data scientists, but they lack a number of conveniences for building reusable and maintainable systems. For machine learning projects in particular there is a need for being able to pivot from exploring a particular dataset or problem to integrating that solution into a larger workflow. Rick Lamers and Yannick Perrenet were tired of struggling with one-off solutions when they created the Orchest platform. In this episode they explain how Orchest allows you to turn your notebooks into executable components that are integrated...

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Write Your Python Scripts In A Flow Based Visual Editor With Ryven - Episode 303

February 23, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Write Your Python Scripts In A Flow Based Visual Editor With Ryven - Episode 303

When you are writing a script it can become unwieldy to understand how the logic and data are flowing through the program. To make this easier to follow you can use a flow-based approach to building your programs. Leonn Thomm created the Ryven project as an environment for visually constructing a flow-based program. In this episode he shares his inspiration for creating the Ryven project, how it changes the way you think about program design, how Ryven is implemented, and how to get started with it for your own...

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CrossHair: Your Automatic Pair Programmer - Episode 302

February 16, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on CrossHair: Your Automatic Pair Programmer - Episode 302

One of the perennial challenges in software engineering is to reduce the opportunity for bugs to creep into the system. Some of the tools in our arsenal that help in this endeavor include rich type systems, static analysis, writing tests, well defined interfaces, and linting. Phillip Schanely created the CrossHair project in order to add another ally in the fight against broken code. It sits somewhere between type systems, automated test generation, and static analysis. In this episode he explains his motivation for creating it, how he uses it...

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Giving Your Data Science Projects And Teams A Home At DagsHub - Episode 301

February 9, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Giving Your Data Science Projects And Teams A Home At DagsHub - Episode 301

Collaborating on software projects is largely a solved problem, with a variety of hosted or self-managed platforms to choose from. For data science projects, collaboration is still an open question. There are a number of projects that aim to bring collaboration to data science, but they are all solving a different aspect of the problem. Dean Pleban and Guy Smoilovsky created DagsHub to give individuals and teams a place to store and version their code, data, and models. In this episode they explain how DagsHub is designed to make...

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Exploring Literate Programming For Python Projects With nbdev - Episode 300

February 2, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Exploring Literate Programming For Python Projects With nbdev - Episode 300

Creating well designed software is largely a problem of context and understanding. The majority of programming environments rely on documentation, tests, and code being logically separated despite being contextually linked. In order to weave all of these concerns together there have been many efforts to create a literate programming environment. In this episode Jeremy Howard of fast.ai fame and Hamel Husain of GitHub share the work they have done on nbdev. The explain how it allows you to weave together documentation, code, and tests in the same context so...

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