I did a lot of tech work on the infrastructure underlying my analytics over the past weeks. I am putting my notes here so they don’t get lost and maybe help someone. Here are three stories, unrelated to each other.
I stopped writing reports, and so can you
This post explains how to generate management-quality PDF or HTML reporting directly from Jupyter Notebook. With this technique, I reduced to zero the most irritating part of my projects: copy-pasting diagrams into PowerPoint.
Nine Circles of Hell: time in Python
Python is powerful, concise, and robust. Simply great. Except…when you work with time. Coping with mysterious errors in transforming dates and timestamps took me hours and days of frustration. I was like, ‘why is Python doing it to me’? I