Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 12 April 2019 in Python • Tagged with python, finance • 3 min read
This is the first post in a series of posts dedicated for demonstrating how Python can be applied in the finance industry. Personally, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the finance industry is the stock market. For fellow Australians, our main stock exchange is the …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 05 April 2019 in Engineering • Tagged with electrical, esp8266 • 1 min read
Following the previous two weeks of topics, Introduction to ESP32/ESP8266 and What is MicroPython?.  I wrote an article on maker.pro in which I describe how to program the ESP8266 with MicroPython in detail.
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 29 March 2019 in Python • Tagged with python, micropython • 2 min read
From the MicroPython docs themselves “MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.”. But what does all this mean? Python 3 is one of …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 25 January 2019 in Python • Tagged with python, packaging • 3 min read
One of the biggest skills in any career path comes solely from knowing where to look and what to look for when breaking down a problem. The same principle applies for Python programming. Since there are millions of different packages out there that all serve different purposes, it is often …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 11 January 2019 in Python • Tagged with python • 3 min read
Python is one of my favourite languages to develop in (if you haven't noticed yet). My favourite feature of Python is how easy it is to share your work with others and integrate other's code into your own projects. However as a project grows and gets older as time goes …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 14 December 2018 in Python • Tagged with data, visualization • 1 min read
In an ever growing world of data, every person perceives data in their own personalized way. This calls for data analysis to be visualized in a clear straightforward way so that it is accessible by anyone may come into contact with the system.
By further making the data analysis system …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 07 December 2018 in Python • Tagged with database, selfimprovement • 1 min read
While it always may seem to be easiest to keep using what you've always used in the past, sometimes it pays off to keep an open mind about how you approach problems.
Recently was asked to create a database with minute interval data from 600-700 data recording stations for up …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 23 November 2018 in Python • Tagged with data, analysis • 1 min read
Recently I had to opportunity to optimize some workflows that involved heavy data processing, before the users were completing calculations/statistics by hand on up to 10 million rows in Excel, causing many complications (and crashes).
With the use of Python this data analysis has been reduced to a matter …