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Now Reading: “Ikigai”
Now reading “Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life” by Héctor García and Frances Miralles. According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—what a French philosopher might call a raison d’être. Some… Read More »Now Reading: “Ikigai”
Now Reading: Rabid
Now reading: Rabid, A cultural history of the World’s most diabolical virus , by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Getting Data with Beautiful Soup
Always wanted to get some data from the web in a programmatic way? Well, check out my recent post in the Domino Data Blog where I discuss how to get data with the help of… Read More »Getting Data with Beautiful Soup
Now Reading: Sentient
Now Reading: Sentient by Jackie Higgins After reading a review of this book in the Guardian, I thought it was a good book to add to my list. Jackie Higgins explains how the animal kingdom… Read More »Now Reading: Sentient
Data Exploration with Pandas Profiler and D-Tale
Are you interested in exploring data using Python? If so, take a look at my this blog post of mine… where I talk about using Pandas Profiler and D-Tale to carry out data exploration. Helpful… Read More »Data Exploration with Pandas Profiler and D-Tale
Get the “hello” screensaver on your mac
You may have seen the shiny new 2021 iMac with the new exciting colours, actually a bit reminiscent of the iMac G3 from 1988 or “The Macintosh that Saved Apple“. The new iMac comes with… Read More »Get the “hello” screensaver on your mac
Walk by the Thames
Walking by the Thames this afternoon and I saw this heron looking the world go by.
Spell check Jupyter Notebooks
If you are interested in getting some spellchecking capabilities in the markdown cells of your Jupyter notebook take a look at this repo. You can follow these instructions: Install Jupyter notebook extensions (nbextensions). This includes Spellchecker and… Read More »Spell check Jupyter Notebooks
Alan Turing – Pride Month
June 30th! It has gone quickly and with today being the last day of pride month it seems fitting to mention a very influential scientist that has shaped modern life, contributed to the war effort… Read More »Alan Turing – Pride Month