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Interactive Random Walkers with Javascript

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 03 July 2020 in Javascript • Tagged with javascript, data-viz • 2 min read

Random walks are where randomly-moving objects move around, that's it. The most fascinating part about it is how many seemingly 'patterns' emerge from the random behaviour, and that everyone sees something different in the visualisations. In this post, let's build an interactive random walk visualisation with Javascript. Let's control the …

How Pandas_Alive was Made

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 26 June 2020 in Python • Tagged with Python • 5 min read

Pandas-Alive is an open source Python package for making animated charts from Pandas dataframes. This project was first inspired by a very specific COVID-19 visualisation, so I set out to make this visualisation a reality.

This visualisation consisted of a bar chart race showing regions, a line chart showing new …

How to Make GitHub Actions

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 19 June 2020 in CICD • Tagged with cicd • 4 min read

From a recent post on this blog on how to use GitHub Actions to easily integrate CI/CD into your repository, this post will go into how to create your own GitHub Action!

This post was inspired from developing a few GitHub Actions of my own, which I recently released …

Geopandas and Pandas Alive

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 12 June 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation • 6 min read

Geopandas and Pandas_Alive

Following on from a previous post on making animated charts with pandas_alive, let's go into generating animated charts specifically for geospatial data with geopandas. Support for geopandas was introduced into pandas_alive in version 0.2.0, along with functionality to interface with contextily for enabling basemaps. The …

Make a README & Documentation with Jupyter Notebooks

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 05 June 2020 in Python • Tagged with python • 5 min read

README is typically the front page of a project, and should contain relevant information for current users & prospective users. As to make sure documentation across a project is consistent as well, imagine if we could include this README that is the front page of our project, both on the repository …

Translating Text in Python

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 29 May 2020 in Data Science • Tagged with datascience, python • 9 min read

Massive thank you to Chema, who translated this article himself into Spanish! Check it out at: https://www.ibidemgroup.com/edu/traduccion-automatica-texto-python/

Working with data in a connected digital world, means you will possibly encounter data in a language outside your own. In this post we'll go into ways to …

Creating Animated Plots with Pandas_Alive

Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 21 May 2020 in Data Science • Tagged with datascience, python, data-viz, datavisualisation • 5 min read

In this tutorial we'll learn how to create a series of animations using Pandas_Alive. This post is rendered in the style of a Jupyter Notebook. Find the source here: https://github.com/JackMcKew/jackmckew.dev/tree/master/content/2020/pandas_alive/notebooks/pandas_alive_demo.ipynb.

Pandas_Alive was created by me! I set …

COVID-19 Confirmed Cases NSW Australia - Animated Statistics over Time

Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 14 May 2020 in Data Science • Tagged with datascience, python, data-viz, datavisualiation • 1 min read

Recently, I had wanted to build a visualisation of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in my home state NSW. This post is to cover the release of the visualisation on YouTube, and there is hopes to write future post(s) about building this visualisation & developing Pandas_Alive. Would love to hear …

Book Review: Never Split the Difference

Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 07 May 2020 in Book Reviews • Tagged with bookreview, principles • 2 min read

Never Split the difference by Chris Voss & Tahl Raz is a fantastic book how handling negotiations effectively. Chris is a former hostage negotiator for the FBI involving terrorist & kidnapping situations, this book helps you gain insight into how he dealt with negotiations then, and practical examples you can use in …

Managing Virtual Environments on Windows

Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 30 April 2020 in Python • Tagged with Python • 3 min read

Managing virtual environments for Python on Windows was never straightforward in my experience. There is so many different tools available (which is fantastic!), it's difficult to find the right combination for Python projects. This post is for the combination of tools that work for my application, if there are any …

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