Maximize dashboard usability by collecting user feedback — Why Build Dashboards? Dashboards are powerful communication tools designed to maximize data-driven decision making. Since the goal of a dashboard is to communicate information, users will often have questions or suggestions on how things can be changed or improved. …

Learn to write Python like the pros by using lambda functions — Learning Python Takes Time Traveling the road from rookie to Pythonista can take a while and varies from person to person. Most people start learning Python by reviewing the basic data structures for numbers, Booleans and strings, and then move to complex data structures like lists and dictionaries. …

Learn how to calculate variance using Python and how to understand the statistic — Statistics for Data Analysis Variance is a powerful statistic used in data analysis and machine learning. It is one of the four main measures of variability along with range, interquartile range (IQR) and standard deviation. Understanding variance is important because it gives you insight into the spread of your data and can be used…

Improve your understanding of probability through coding — What is the Birthday Paradox? The other day at work, one of my coworkers came in with treats in celebration of his birthday. As we all gathered around his desk to snack and chat, someone mentioned that another person at the company shares the same birthday. …

When (and when not) to use it — Working with data I’ve been working in data professionally for almost a decade and the first thing I tell all new-comers is to start mastering relational databases and Structured Query Language (SQL). Understanding how to query and manipulate data in databases is an important skill because every company has data and most want…

And where to store the data — So you’ve created NFT artwork… When I created the TrippyEggs NFT collection, I did it all in Blender manually instead of using a tool like HashLips Art Engine. Art engines that are used to create generative art collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club often include a way to generate the metadata. …

Is this the beginning of Medium’s downfall? — What gives? When booting up the Medium phone app, I saw a message saying they removed all of the writing and editing features. I guess if you’re unable to afford a desktop, Medium doesn’t want you as a writer. I hope they provide some data driven insight as to why because it…

Use Dash and HuggingFace to build a powerful blogging tool — Are the machines taking over? Writing assistants powered by “artificial intelligence” that claim to make you a better blogger by automatically producing content have exploded in popularity. They are often utilizing massive language models created through machine learning, like GPT-3 by OpenAI. In this article I’m going to show you how easy it is to…

Mint | Stake | Earn. It’s that simple. — Sick of the Scams I’ve been in crypto long enough to have seen all-time highs, the NFT boom, the Metaverse land-rush, the opensea front running scandal, lots and lots of pump-and-dumps, rug pulls, scams, and DAO implosions. …