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 …
Posted by Jack McKew on Wed 25 March 2020 in Python • Tagged with python • 6 min read
Packaging Python code to easily share code with others!
Building upon a previous post on "How many words have I written in this blog?", let's dive into how to share this code with other on PyPI and integrate into this website with a 'word ticker' which updates whenever a new …
Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 19 March 2020 in Python • Tagged with python • 5 min read
Recursively counting words in markdown within a folder
In the last 55 posts, I've written 34846 words in this blog. In comparison, my engineering thesis for graduating university was 9916 words across 69 pages.
A question had popped into my mind this week, "How many words have I written in …
Posted by Jack McKew on Wed 11 March 2020 in Python • Tagged with python • 6 min read
Python Bytes is a weekly, short & sweet podcast by Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken. After having the podcast recommended numerous times by friends & colleagues, I decided to download every episode thus far on the 14th of September 2019. Over the next 174 days, whenever I was commuting, I'd listen to 171 …
Posted by Jack McKew on Wed 26 February 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, generative • 40 min read
Visualising gradient descent in 3 dimensions
Building upon our terrain generator from the blog post: https://jackmckew.dev/3d-terrain-in-python.html, today we will implement a demonstration of how gradient descent behaves in 3 dimensions and produce an interactive visualisation similar to the terrain visualisation. Note that my understanding of gradient …
Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 20 February 2020 in Python • Tagged with python • 4 min read
One of the most useful skills in my opinion in all walks of life is the ability to find information & answers. A very useful tool for doing this is the internet & search engines like Google. In my opinion being able to search …
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 …