Uncomplicating Technology
Uncomplicating Technology
This section contains posts about programming and scripting
A string is one of the many data types in Python. Some of the other common ones are objects, lists, integers, and dates. At its core, a string is really a list/array of characters. Today we will be Python String Operations. We will cover how to Concatenate, Tokenize, Manipulate, Search strings, and create string templates. …
By default Python only gives you a single environment for your whole system. This means when you install Python, or a package using Pip, you are installing that version of python or that version of the python package for the entire system. And all scripts you run will interact with that same version of python …
Pandas is useful for doing data analysis in Python. Today we will discuss how to install Pandas, some of the basic concepts of Pandas Dataframes, then some of the common Pandas use cases. What is Pandas? Pandas is a Python library for doing data analysis. Typically you will use it for working with 1-dimentional series …
Did you know you can host a webpage using nothing but Python code? You don’t have to use things like IIS or Apache. While you may not get all of the same features. When you are trying to write a simple application. Or if you want to host an API, this route is an option …
In this article we will discuss error handling using Python With Statements Try/Except/Finally statements, show how to use these in combination, and compare how it works to try/catch code blocks in other languages. What is error handling? Error handling is when you put in some extra code to tell your script what to do when …
Creating word clouds in Python is easy thanks to a few open source libraries. Today, we we’ll use the ammueler word cloud library and matplotlib to draw some word clouds. Word clouds are useful visualization tools for looking at the general theme of a document. As a document contains more instances of a given word, …
In this article I will introduce you to graphing in python using matplotlib. There are many kinds of charts you can use with matplot lib. By the end of this article, you should understand how to draw basic bar, line, and scatterplot charts. As you go through each of the example charts, you will see …
Scikit Learn is an easy to use Machine Learning library for Python. In this article, we will discuss how to create a basic classifier application where you can feed it data, and it will properly classify it for you. In this case we will use data on cars and classify them as Sedans, Pickup Trucks, …
In this article, we will cover python basics. We will discuss what is python, where you can download python from, the basic syntax of python, how to input and output information in and out of your python scripts, how to do loops, conditional operators (if/else/elif), and how to write basic functions. What is Python? Python …
Let’s compare Powershell vs CMD. Both Powershell and CMD are command line interfaces (CLI) or shell environments for Windows. CMD is the older version, and Powershell is where Microsoft is now putting all of their development resources. CMD You can think of the CMD environment as the evolution of Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System). While …