When I start a new Python project I find myself having to remember how to instantiate a database connection or maybe how to define an Excel writer in Pandas for writing multiple worksheets. It is usually the same set of code each time and I end up sifting through other Python projects to recollect the […] continue reading »
I stumbled across a feature in Anaconda’s Spyder that I wasn’t aware of previously. (Perhaps the feature was quietly introduced in a release where I didn’t read the release notes.) In the past when working with Matlab data files, I would use something like: import scipy.io mat = scipy.io.loadmat('file.mat') It looks like it is even […] continue reading »
In one of the ML books I was going through from Packt Publishing (I can’t figure out which book it was–it has been a while), I saw a cool example of using dynamic time warping (DTW) for detecting the similarities of music tracks. Audio data is a type of time series. Comparing the distances between […] continue reading »
In an earlier post I showed how to create a basic tool for tracking internet connectivity. (My modem at home seems to drop its internet connection as specific times in the day. I want to validate this.) We’ll use the popular NoSQL document database MongoDB. Even though MongoDB is designed for document structures, it is […] continue reading »
At home my internet modem occasionally loses connectivity with the web. I can see other devices on the network, so I’m sure it is not the modem that has gone down completely. It is somewhere between my modem and my ISP. The weird thing about the web connectivity outages is they seem to all happen […] continue reading »
