RobinL

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by RobinL 9y ago
Pandas is definitely the most popular (and imo best) data wrangling library for Python.
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by RobinL 9y ago
I'm an avid Pandas user. Some stuff at work has come up recently that calls for ETL - and I'm trying to figure out what the best tools are. Is any of your Bonobo code public? I'd be curious to see what a real-life project
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by RobinL 10y ago
In Google Docs, the interface to enter a special character has a 'draw it' mode...
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by RobinL 10y ago
Having spent lots of time recently looking at vis in both Python and R (I use both), I'm starting to think Vega lite may well be the future. In Python, you can use Altair [0] and in R you can use the vegalite package [1]. Note also th
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by RobinL 10y ago
There's some good advice here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18734739/using-ipython-no... . Obviously imperfect, but it helps until it's implemented properly
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by RobinL 10y ago
I think the reporting is misleading: 'How would you feel if, desperate for somewhere to live, you had to bid against other prospective renters?' That's just the market. All this does is make it more transparent. What is nee
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by RobinL 10y ago
I've been a government analyst for around 10 years, starting my career as an economist (after graduating with an economics degree). This meant I was working with numbers a lot, and I found that my strengths were mainly in statistics a
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by RobinL 10y ago
I've been working as a data scientist for a few years now, primarily self taught using the wealth of high quality videos and other materials online. I recently worked as a teaching assistant on an expensive and well-regarded data scien
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by RobinL 10y ago
It'd be amazing to see a combination of this with R Markdown
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by RobinL 10y ago
I work in central London. There's a supermarket below my old office (Sainsbury's opposite Holborn tube) which is around 1/3rd tills. There are around 30 in total, of which around 20 are self checkout. Nevertheless, at lunc
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by RobinL 10y ago
This is really excellent. I have now read it three times, running through the commands as I go, and for the first time I feel like I actually understand git. Here are some commands I found useful as I went through the tutorial: To show a g
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Turning Jupyter Notebooks into Data Applications(youtube.com)
10 points by RobinL 10y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 10y ago
Would love to know what packages etc. you're using in sublime to achieve that! - Thanks!
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Scaling Knowledge at Airbnb(medium.com)
2 points by RobinL 10y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 11y ago
There are clearly serious problems with wealth and income distribution. However, the size of the pie and the distribution of it are different problems (although not independent). It doesn't follow that by prohibiting technological pro
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by RobinL 11y ago
Tech moves on and usually displaces labour but so far hasn't created mass unemployment. Instead it's made us richer. At any point in time people are concerned by the job destruction caused by progress, but after it has happened
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by RobinL 11y ago
Github repo is here: https://github.com/RobinL/d3_orgchart_yammer In the repo are Python scripts that will pull data from your company's Yammer network and write the json that sits behind the visualisation. Use h
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Show HN: Yammer API to interactive, searchable organisation charts in D3.js(robinl.github.io)
2 points by RobinL 11y ago|1 comments
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by RobinL 11y ago
Also noisome
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by RobinL 11y ago
This is interesting, but as an economist it immediately struck me that something in this argument feels wrong. Thinking it though, it may work, but there is a potential problem. You're suggesting you expand the supply side in a surge
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by RobinL 11y ago
Well - that gives me the opportunity to say thank you for your work! It's helped me on numerous occasions to test things out, and to demonstrate concepts to others.
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by RobinL 11y ago
http://tributary.io/ has been around for ages and works pretty well....
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by RobinL 11y ago
Yep - details in the wiki link :-) In fact, we even get a quantification of the potential 'value' of the billboards (to the advertisers, at least) : JCDecaux paid the scheme's start-up costs, totalling about $140 million, a
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by RobinL 11y ago
What is better, billboards and a bike scheme, or no billboards? We shouldn't ignore that there are real tradeoffs at stake here (even if they don't involve bikes). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vélib%27
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by RobinL 11y ago
Same. I was waiting for Skylake to upgrade but doesn't seem worth it; I'll probably wait for a 2x performance boost on the i5-2500k, which seems to be still a long way off. Although it seems disappointing perhaps I should be gra
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by RobinL 12y ago
The size of the pie is basically fixed. Companies are worth only a certain amount (under big assumptions, the net present value of future dividends). The more insider traders make, the less everyone else makes.
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by RobinL 12y ago
Note the absence of the word 'in' ;-)
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by RobinL 12y ago
I'm afraid this is a very rosy way of looking at things: * You can't simultanously work less and spend more. Working three days a week means consuming more leisure, but fewer goods. Spending would not go up. * The lump of labour
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by RobinL 12y ago
This September, I'm starting tutoring A level maths to underprivileged kids for a charity after helping them with GCSEs last year. This looks like it will be really helpful. Thanks!
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by RobinL 12y ago
Agreed - the time it takes to do anything is very frustrating. There's an easy solution though: get a bike, and try and pursuade your friends to cycle too. It's rare that it takes me more than 30 minutes to meet up now (which equ

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