I ran another Executives at PyData discussion session for 50+ leaders at our PyDataLondon conference a couple of weeks back. We had great conversation which dug into a lot of topics. I’ve writt...
I’ve used the Pandas data science toolkit for over a decade and I’ve filed a couple of issues, but I’ve never contributed to the source. At the weekend I got to balance the books a little b...
https://ianozsvald.com/2021/03/10/my-first-commit-to-pandas/
On November 11th we saw the most ambitious ever PyData conference – PyData Global 2020 was a combination of world-wide PyData groups putting on a huge event to both build our international comm...
https://ianozsvald.com/2020/11/30/skinny-pandas-riding-on-a-rocket-at-pydataglobal-2020/
I’ve had a chance to return to talking about High Performance Python at EuroPython 2020 after my first tutorial on this topic back in 2011 in Florence. Today I spoke on Making Pandas Fly with a...
https://ianozsvald.com/2020/07/24/making-pandas-fly-at-europython-2020/
I’ve recently switched back from Sourdough yeast to dried packet yeast mix, given a recipe by a colleague (thanks Nick!). I immediately set to work modifying his recipe (well, cutting out steps...
I gave another iteration of my Making Pandas Fly talk sequence for PyDataAmsterdam recently and received some lovely postcards from attendees as a result. I’ve also had time to list new iterati...
I thank the PyDataAmsterdam 2020 organisers for another chance to speak on Making Pandas Fly (PyDataAmsterdam 2020). This variant of the talk focuses more on: Understanding when categories beat s...
https://ianozsvald.com/2020/06/23/making-pandas-fly-for-pydataamsterdam-2020/
Over the weekend I hacked on dtype_diet – a tool for Pandas users that checks their DataFrame to see if smaller datatypes might be applicable. If so they’d offer no data loss and a reduction ...
So – High Performance Python 2nd ed finally shipped (Amazon, Goodreads) – yay! In brief we’ve added notes on how you can be a “highly performant programmer”, added some more profiling, ...
Well, mid-next-week note I guess. I gave another variant of my higher performance Python talk last night for PyDataUK to 250 live streamers, we had some good questions, cheers all. On Friday Mich...