April 2017

automatetheboringstuff.com

Al Sweigart's free online book teaching Python to complete beginners through scripts that automate files, spreadsheets, email and web tasks.

nominatim.openstreetmap.org

Demo search interface for Nominatim, OpenStreetMap's geocoder, turning place names and addresses into coordinates and back.

carto.com

CARTO's site, a cloud platform for spatial analysis, mapping and location-intelligence apps running directly on a data warehouse.

multithreaded.stitchfix.com

Argues that data scientists should own their own ETL and production code end to end, with platform engineers building the abstractions that make that autonomy possible.

nikgrozev.com

Illustrated walkthrough of the pandas reshaping operations — pivot, pivot_table, stack and unstack — and what each one does to a dataframe.

firstround.com

Looker founder Lloyd Tabb on trading vanity metrics for clarity metrics — the few numbers that actually predict customer behaviour.

pypi.python.org

Python module that monitors a process's memory usage and reports memory consumption line by line.