I think Pandas may have “lost the plot.”

August 4, 2021 | John Mount

I’ve thought of Pandas as in-memory column oriented data structure with reasonable performance. If I need high performance or scale, I can move to a database. Now I kind of wonder what Pandas is, or what it wants to be. The version 1.3.0 package seems to be marking natural ways […]
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Take the Advancing into Analytics event survey

July 25, 2021 | George Mount

Have you attended a meetup or presentation related to my book Advancing into Analytics? Would you like to? I would love your feedback! Please let me know in the following form what you found most engaging and how your organization could benefit the most from the material. If you’d ...
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Sourcing Python packages: A decision tree

July 25, 2021 | George Mount

I’m sure many readers got excited by the data science possibilities of the title. However, decision trees are more than statistical algorithms — in a broader sense they are any schematics used to help chart actions and consequences, whether probabilities are given or not. In this post, we’ll use ...
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A basic Python Excel workflow

July 20, 2021 | George Mount

If you’re just getting started with building reports and other analyses in Excel using Python, it be can be confusing to see how all the steps and packages fit together. This post and accompanying visual is meant to map the basic process. If you’re not familiar with the ...
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