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)

aparrish

godardt

jakevdp

versipellis

Podcasts for Data Science & Stuff

I asked the Twittersphere for data science (& tangentially-related) podcasts recommendations, and got a much bigger response than I expected with some really superb recommendations, so I created a gist with the suggestions I received. They're arranged alphabetically by name below, along with relevant Twitter accounts, links, and names of the hosts (if I could find them).

Shoot me a tweet @bennyjtang if you have more suggestions to add to this list!

Original Twitter thread

Adversarial Learning

• @Adversarial_L
• Andrew Musselman, Joel Grus

vonnenaut

PostgreSQL

Setup/Admin

Initial Setup for Local Development

• install psql and pgadmin
• set postgres password to access maintenance db; password is initially undefined, preventing login via postgres user account

  sudo -u postgres psql postgres

poop-person

POOP: Peacefully Opposing Oppressive Puritanism

POOP is a badge for any software project that is [under attack by modern day puritans][opalgate]. Use this badge to declare that your project is POOP: Peacefully Opposing Oppressive Puritanism.

stefan-it

TPU VM Cheetsheat

This TPU VM cheatsheet uses and was tested with the following library versions:

Library	Version
JAX	0.3.25
FLAX	0.6.4
Datasets	2.10.1
Transformers	4.27.1