February 2018

github.com

Short guide to the Python 3 features that make the migration worthwhile for data scientists — matrix multiplication operator, pathlib, type hints, f-strings and unicode.

mozillascience.github.io

Workshop exercise for project leads — sketch personas of potential users and contributors, then map the pathways that turn them into committed community members.

b-list.org

Why usernames are harder than a unique column — case folding, Unicode normalisation, homograph attacks, reserved names, and the tripartite identity pattern.

blog.cloudflare.com

How to run Go source files directly as executable scripts on Linux, by registering a wrapper interpreter with the binfmt_misc kernel module.

imply.io

Commercial platform from the original creators of Apache Druid, selling managed and hybrid Druid deployments for storing and querying observability and security data.

superset.incubator.apache.org

Open-source data exploration and visualisation platform — charts built by drag and drop or SQL, interactive dashboards, and connectors to most SQL databases.

druid.io

Real-time analytics database built for sub-second aggregate queries over large streaming and batch datasets.

github.com

Platform for sharing data-science research as versioned Jupyter notebooks and markdown posts, with review, tagging and a browsable web index.