I have been wanting to learn regex. Not just because it reminds me of q a bit but because it’s actually very useful and can be used within numerous languages including python. In case you don’t know, regex stands for regular expression. A regex is “a sequence of characters that define a search pattern.” Most popular use case is …
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Getting started with data science
Recently, a few of my friends have shown interest in what I do and the skill set required for my job. For those who don’t know, I am a market data developer. This means that I work with time-series databases to capture and store both real-time and historical data. I am also responsible for writing …
Analyzing NYC traffic data using Pandas
I wrote a post earlier about how to analyze data using Pandas. In that post, I just introduced some simple Pandas functions to analyze some random data. In this post, I am using real world traffic data from NYC. NYC has made a lot of data available to public recently on this website. There is …
Introducing data analysis with Python and Pandas
Recently, I have been playing around with Python and its data analysis library – Pandas, which is built on another library called NumPy. Most of you have probably heard of Python (if not then I don’t know what’s wrong with you. Get out there and make some programmer friends or read some blogs). Python has …
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