TomAugspurger

bsweger

Useful Pandas Snippets

A personal diary of DataFrame munging over the years.

Data Types and Conversion

Convert Series datatype to numeric (will error if column has non-numeric values)
(h/t @makmanalp)

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

p7k

from functools import wraps
from timeit import default_timer
import gevent
from gevent.queue import Queue

def gevent_throttle(calls_per_sec=0):
    """Decorates a Greenlet function for throttling."""
    interval = 1. / calls_per_sec if calls_per_sec else 0
    def decorate(func):
        blocked = [False] # has to be a list to not get localised inside the while loop

mbostock

Collections

each(array)

Underscore example:

_.each([1, 2, 3], function(num) { alert(num); });

ramnathv

Creating a clean gh-pages branch

This is the sequence of steps to follow to create a root gh-pages branch. It is based on a question at [SO]

cd /path/to/repo-name
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
echo "My GitHub Page" > index.html