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Base Python Rgonomic Patterns

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Getting comfortable in a new language is more than the packages you use. Syntactic sugar in base python increases the efficiency, and aesthetics of python code in ways that R users may seek out in packages like glue and purrr. This post demonstrates a few miscellaneous tools for date manipulation, string interpolation (f-strings), and iteration (list comprehensions)
Jan 20, 2024

Crosspost: Why You Need Data Documentation in 2024

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Data documentation isn’t a box to check; it’s an active member of your team with many jobs-to-be-done. In this cross-post with Select Star, I write about how effective documentation can be your data products’ developer advocate for users, project manager for developers, and chief of staff for data leaders
Jan 15, 2024

polars’ Rgonomic Patterns

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In this follow-up post to Python Rgonomics, we deep dive into some of the advanced data wrangling functionality in python’s polars package to see how it’s powertools like column selectors and nested data structures mirror the best of dplyr and tidyr’s expressive and concise syntax
Jan 13, 2024

Crosspost: Why you’re closer to data documentation than you think

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Writing is thinking; documenting is planning and executing. In this cross-post with Select Star, I write about how teams can produce high-quality and maintainble documentation by smartly structuring planning and development documentation and effeciently recycling them into long-term, user-friendly docs
Jan 5, 2024

Python Rgonomics

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Switching languages is about switching mindsets - not just syntax. New developments in python data science toolings, like polars and seaborn’s object interface, can capture the ‘feel’ that converts from R/tidyverse love while opening the door to truly pythonic workflows
Dec 30, 2023
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