david_eads

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   by david_eads 9y ago

   > I recently started a project that I got to write from the ground up by myself. I was happy with the processing side of things. I was very sad with the data I was getting in and putting out. There's some impedance mismatch that doe
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   by david_eads 9y ago

   I'm actually so with you on a lot of this. The inability to use Pythonisms with Pandas is insane and I had to do a data analysis where I really, genuinely needed to do some looping and some simple map/reduce and it almost drove me
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   by david_eads 9y ago

   It's also really valuable for sharing. At NPR, I did an analysis of Trump's tweets that was used in a digital post and Morning Edition piece. The notebook was easy to share with the reporter, editor, and readers and accessible eno
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   by david_eads 9y ago

   Exactly this. I'm the author of the post and was a programmer by trade for a long time before I became a journalist. I _don't_ actually find this more intuitive than more explicit and fundamental programming techniques. But my stu