Author Archives: Josh

Evening and welcome to our final blog posting during this course. Throughout the course we’ve learned various methods in which to analyze data via code, and specifically Python and applicable libraries. As you read through this post you’ll notice a couple functions, multiple variables, and a statistical method of multivariate analysis to come to aContinue reading “Final Blog: Analysis on Address metadata”

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog post! As we’ve learned some basics about Python games and utilizing PyQt5 as a Graphical User Interface (GUI), we’re going to compare two sets of Python game code. The first set of code derives from Al Sweigart’s Chatper 2 regarding Pygame basics, which can be found here: http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapter2.html.Continue reading “Comparing Code”

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog post. Today we’re going to discuss a little about visualizing data and the important of it. The importance of data is essential to any organization small or large. However, data in itself is simply bits and bytes. Without the proper aggregation of this data turning it into information,Continue reading “Visualizing Data”

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog post. Today we’re going to discuss unit tests, why we unit test, and how to perform simple unit tests leveraging the unittest module library. Unit Testing is essential in ensuring your code is working as expected. Sure you can run your code during and after development, but unitContinue reading “Unit Tests”

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog posting. This evening we’re going to discuss three aspects of data manipulation; shallow copy, deep copy, and various iterators utilizing the itertools module. Shallow copy, is essentially constructing a new object by composition to the extent possible, and then inserts by reference to the object. For example, inContinue reading “Shallow, Deep, and Iterators”

Hello and thank you for reading this weeks blog post. Unfortunately, I missed last week, but I’m back at it this week! This evening we’re going to discuss two popular Python modules; DateTime and TimeDelta. There are numerous use cases for utilizing these two modules in every day programming. DateTime is a simple yet extremelyContinue reading “DateTime and TimeDelta Modules”

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog posting. This evening we’re going to discuss a couple of topics regarding the Python coding language; modules, strings, and functions. Following a brief discussion on these topics, we’ll then look at a couple of examples via code. Python modules are simply collections of multiple Python functions, variables, andContinue reading “Python Modules, Strings, and Functions”

Good evening and welcome to this weeks blog posting. For this evening’s post we’re going to discuss quadratic and reciprocal equations a bit, and how we can apply them within Python for data computation and analysis. Starting with quadratic equations. What makes an equation quadratic? Simply put, an equation becomes quadratic when one of it’sContinue reading “Quadratic and Reciprocal Equations”

Hello! This evening we’re going to discuss data structures, functions, and how we can utilize them together in Python to manage and manipulate data. Data structures are various forms of data encapsulated in a structured manner. These are commonly found within; lists, dictionaries, tuples, sets, and arrays. There are several reasons why we might utilizeContinue reading “Data Structures and Functions”

Hello! Today we’re going to talk a little about two very simple functions within the Python language; print and string. Starting with the print function. In the simplest form the print function allows a developer to output values to the console terminal of the running system. For example, if I were running a simple blah.pyContinue reading “Print and String Functions”