If you’ve played with data for long enough, you’re sure to run into some popular dead-ends. There are many of these, from misspelled location names and addresses to placeholder values entering the data pipeline because of a bug. One of the most frustrating things, if not the prime ...

I spent the last weeks building two small Mastodon bots with the goal in mind to make contributions by PyLadies and R-Ladies more visible. PyLadies and R-Ladies are global non-profit organizations that seek to empower and promote greater diversity in t...

Pygame is a Python module that enables the creation of video games and multimedia applications. It provides a framework for developing 2D games and interactive programs using Python code, and includes features such as graphics rendering, sound playback, and user input handling. Pygame is built on top of the SDL ...

You had a great idea how to help your coworkers optimize their work. You’ve built an app and deployed it in a production server. Now you wait for some signs of success: your happy colleagues praising the app or recommending it to others. But the messages of praise don’...

Python is a standardized high-level programming language in the field of development. Its clean code is easily understandable to developers, making it easy to compile, execute, and run programs. Many new developers are fond of and enthusiastic about pursuing their careers in Python, making it a great choice for building ...

Let’s face it – the technical aspect of writing R and Python packages from scratch isn’t complicated. However, the challenging part lies in proper testing. The goals with package tests are to ensure the package works properly and without any bugs on the client’s hardware and that the ...

Bug fixing using ChatGPT

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2023. The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate data success stories. Organisatio...

Randomized and quasi-randomized 'neural' networks for supervised learning

Introduction “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” Edgar Allan Poe One common way of distinguishing between history and prehistory is by the emergence of writing. In particular, in our modern ...