Solving Problems Using Code
Posted by Aly Sivji in Quick Hits
Bandit is a static analysis tool that can find common security issues in Python code. The command line utility scans .py files and generates a report detailing issues by confidence and severity.
I ran Bandit on a few of my repositories and found I was using md5 to hash passwords …
Posted by Aly Sivji in Data Analysis
In this post, I will describe how to use BSON-NumPy to pull data out of Mongo and into pandas. While this library is still in the prototype stage, it's hard to to ignore the 10x speed improvement that comes from reading BSON documents directly into NumPy.
For this example, I will be analyzing a collection of my tweets
Posted by Aly Sivji in Quick Hits
A stack is a linear data structure that holds a collection of items. We can define operations performed in a stack from the point of view of a user:
.push() - add item to top.pop() - remove and return item from top.peek() - return top most element.is_empty() - True if stack …Summary
- Explore Plotly's new Dash library
- Discuss how to structure Dash apps using MVC
- Build interactive dashboard to display historical soccer results
I spent a good portion of 2014-15 learning JavaScript to create interactive, web-based dashboards for a work project. I wrapped D3.js with Angular directives to create modular …
Posted by Aly Sivji in Data Analysis
Summary
- Use Python to display location data on interactive map
- Cluster points in a heatmap to visualize usage
One of my favorite things about the Python programming language is that I can always import a library to do the heavy lifting and focus my attention on application logic. It's a …