I’ve been hosting my email over at Fastmail for years, and for the most part the service is great. The company understands privacy, contributes back to open source, and is incredibly reliable… (more…)

(PyData Seattle Keynote; July 6 2017) The PyData ecosystem is vast and powerful, but it can be overwhelming to newcomers. In this talk I outline some of the history of *why* the Python data science space is the way it is, as well as *what* tools and te... (more…)

Back in September, word started getting around trendy programming circles about a new file that had appeared in the SQLite fossil repo named json1.c. I originally wrote up a post that contained some gross hacks in order to get pysqlite to compile and work...

In this post I will be showing how to make heat-maps with dendrogram using Python’s Matplotlib library. I came across a post about heat… (more…)

From bank fraud to preventative machine maintenance, anomaly detection is an incredibly useful and common application of machine learning. (more…)