Django and Python developers working alongside clinicians and researchers have built a new analytics platform that looks at electronic health records for 24 million people. (more…)

Last year I started working on a 'Big Data' exercise. It's an ongoing project that mixes large amounts of web traffic, data ingestion and analytics. It's also really fun. We get to play with an array of new technologies - sometimes on a bet, granted - but...

What are Python bindings? Should you use ctypes, CFFI, or a different tool? In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll get an overview of some of the options you can use to call C or C++ code from Python. (more…)

Data scientist, software developer, former mathematician.

I'm pleased to announce the release of Python 3.13 release candidate 3 (instead of the expected final release).https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130rc3/... (more…)