Python is a software tool widely used to process and manipulate data and is used for providing statistics. As a result, its adoption has been widely used in companies large and small, as it is easy to learn.
Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web-based interactive computing environment that allows users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. What languages does it support? It supports many programming languages, including Python, R, and Julia, and is widely used in scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning. What does…
There are several features that make it a better choice over other programming languages, especially for scientific and technical computing. Performance Julia is designed to be a high-performance language, with a speed that is comparable to that of C or Fortran. Its just-in-time (JIT) compilation allows for fast execution times, while its type system and…
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Julia is a high-level, high-performance programming language designed for numerical and scientific computing, data science, and machine learning. Why was it developed? It was developed with the goal of providing a fast, dynamic, and easy-to-use language for high-performance computing, while also being accessible to non-expert programmers. When was Julia released? Julia was first released in…
The exact number of Python functions is not fixed as it can change with new versions of Python and the addition of new modules and packages. Python is an open-source language with a large standard library and an active community of developers who are constantly adding new features and functions. The Python Standard Library alone…
Lambda functions are anonymous functions that take any amount of arguments as their input, but can only have one expression. Let’s look at the function further Lambda functions are anonymous and are usually classified as user-defined functions but without a name. One thing that makes Lambda functions different from regular functions is that they do…
If you are working with files and trying to open them to read in their contents, sometimes errors will pop in that may not immediately be obvious how to resolve. In this blog post, we discuss a TypeError that is associated with opening a file in Python and reading in its contents. So how may…
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In our latest post, we are going to discuss formatting issues that you may come across. It relates to how you format the data when passing it from the input of a user. This scenario can happen as a result of user input, which then has some comparisons completed on it. How does the problem…
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Sometimes you need a function that will help you to aggregate or combine severable iterables in one go. When we read the official Python documentation it states that using zip ” Iterates over several iterables in parallel, producing tuples with an item from each one.” So what does that actually mean? Well in essence essentially…
To start off passing by reference basically means that you are telling the program you have written to pass a variable to a function. When passing arguments to a function, it is important to understand the meanings first. As a result, when you pass by reference to a function, the variable data gets processed and…
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You have been probably looking at large sets of data for a while, and projects to extract insights from them. If you are given a set of data that is so large you may need something more! This is where Apache Spark comes in! So what does Apache Spark do? It performs the following functions:…
