Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 13 February 2020 in Book Reviews • Tagged with bookreview, principles, habits • 3 min read
Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg was one of the most useful books I have read. While it doesn't explicitly step the reader through how to change habits, it thoroughly goes through many examples of where habits have changed other people's lives, case studies if you will. By then being …
Posted by Jack McKew on Mon 03 February 2020 in Python • Tagged with python • 5 min read
This post goes into how to generate documentation for your python projects automatically with Sphinx!
First off we have to install sphinx into our virtual environment. Pending on your flavour, we can do any of the following
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Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 24 January 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, generative • 21 min read
Generating & Visualising 3D Terrains in Python
Today, let's put together a 3D visualisation of randomly generated 'terrain' with Python. Data visualisation is an absolutely key skill in any developers pocket, as communicating both data, analysis and more is thoroughly simplified through the use of graphs. While a picture tells a …
Posted by Jack McKew on Wed 15 January 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation • 6 min read
Pandas for geospatial data
Personally whenever I am faced with a problem that involves analysing geospatial data, GeoPandas is the first tool/package I reach for. Extending on the Pandas dataframe data structure, GeoPandas brings functionality for working with points, polygons and more out of the box. This post is …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 20 December 2019 in Software Development • Tagged with python • 5 min read
For some time now I have been wanting to move away from Wordpress, due to my specific case of wanting to embed custom HTML and JavaScript code snippets to enable interactive data visualisation. Furthermore my previous workflow of posts was disjointed in which I would develop the code in a …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 08 November 2019 in Software Development • Tagged with python • 1 min read
Following on from last week's post on making executable GUIs with Gooey, this post will cover how to make the executables we have packaged up into installable files so our users can run them easily.
Once we have created the executable file for our GUI (which will be located in …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 01 November 2019 in Python • Tagged with python • 4 min read
Today we will go through how to go from a python script to packaged executable with a guided user interface (GUI) for users. First off we still start by writing the scripts that we would like to share with others to be able to use, especially for users that may …
Posted by Jack McKew on Sat 12 October 2019 in Machine Learning • Tagged with machinelearning, ai, python • 3 min read
Chapter 3 is focusing in on classification systems. As brought up earlier, most common supervised machine learning tasks are regression (predicting values) and classification (predicting classes). This chapter goes through the 'Hello World' of classification tasks, the MNIST dataset. The MNIST dataset is a set of 70,000 images of …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 11 October 2019 in Book Reviews • Tagged with bookreview, principles, habits • 4 min read
I've just finished reading Ray Dalio's book Principles, and wanted to use this space to jot down some of my personal takeaways and thoughts. To give some background, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Assosciates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, wrote this book around the unique principles …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 04 October 2019 in Python • Tagged with python, pyglet • 3 min read
Recently, I've been researching ways that I could run a 2D simulation (and hopefully 3D) with many moving pieces and there was a desire to make it interactive as well. I stumbled through many visualisation frameworks such as:
Eventually, through the motivation of …