Articles

How to Set Up Pre-Commit Hooks

9 min read

Looking to streamline your local development? In this article, I provide a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring pre-commit hooks on your project. You will also a learn a little bit about how git hooks work.

DevX,

pre-commit hooks,

Python

5 Ways to Get Started in Open Source

11 min read

Everyone can and should get involved in open source. Not sure how to find something to work on? Here are 5 strategies that I have used to get started.

open source,

open source contribution,

open source software

Data Morph: Moving Beyond the Datasaurus Dozen

7 min read

Data Morph transforms a panda to a star, while preserving summary statistics.

This article introduces Data Morph, a new open source Python package that can be used to morph an input dataset of 2D points into select shapes, while preserving the summary statistics to a given number of decimal points through simulated annealing.

data science,

Python,

open source software,

data visualization

How to Pivot and Plot Data with Pandas

5 min read

In this article, we will discuss how to create a pivot table of aggregated data in order to make a stacked bar visualization of the 2019 airline market share for the top 10 destination cities.