Nick Powell nmpowell

For Python Quants Bootcamp

This is the Gist the FPQ bootcamp in New York, 08.-11. May 2017 (http://fpq.io)

Notebooks & Code Files

Additional files (eg Jupyter Notebooks) are found under:

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)

Software for scientists

Some things takes much less time and stress once you know the right tool. Below, there is a community edited list of software for scientists.

Text editors

in General purpose text/code editors. It may be better to have a good editor for everything, than different ones for different languages, scripts, notes.

mkdown

What is this?

Mkdown renders Markdown GitHub gists with alternative CSS. Use it to elegantly share gists written in Markdown.

How do I use this?

To create your own mkdown URL, append the gist ID in a URL of the form: http://mkdown.com/{GIST ID}. The gist ID is the string at the end of a gist URL.

	from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
	import cv2

	img = cv2.imread('/Users/mustafa/test.jpg')
	gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

	plt.imshow(gray)
	plt.title('my picture')
	plt.show()

	#!/bin/bash
	# file: ttfb.sh
	# curl command to check the time to first byte
	# usage
	# 1. ./ttfb.sh "https://google.com"
	# 2. seq 10 \| xargs -Iz ./ttfb.sh "https://google.com"

	curl -o /dev/null \
	-H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
	-s \

	[user]
	name = David Winterbottom
	email = [email protected]

	[alias]

	# SHORT VERSIONS

	co = checkout
	ci = commit

	/*
	********************************************************************************
	Golang - Asterisk and Ampersand Cheatsheet
	********************************************************************************

	Also available at: https://play.golang.org/p/lNpnS9j1ma

	Allowed:
	--------
	p := Person{"Steve", 28} stores the value