Running shell (e.g. Bash) commands in Python is fairly easy using the os package. In this article, I outline two ways to run shell commands in Python: using the system method and the popen method. This article is part of a two-part series related to running shell commands from within…
I would like to briefly elaborate on an error I ran into, which is due to limited documentation on the Google Cloud Platform API. With this article, I hope to save you the time and effort to find the solution. I’ve been following an infrastructure-as-code approach to deploying GCP resources…
Because there are (too) many ways to cast a Pandas DataFrame from long to wide format, I decided to list four ways to achieve that goal. The four functions I describe in this article are the following. Function Object aggregation Can handle NaNs pivot DataFrame no no pivot_table DataFrame yes…
In this article we elaborate on the multiple ways to remove the final line of a CSV in Python when loading it with Pandas’ read_csv function. Remove final row(s) after loading the file Removing the final row from a Pandas DataFrame can be done with a simple slice. The following…
I’ve been working with Airflow recently, and I needed to configure an operator by passing it the execution time. Or at least I thought so. I really felt like writing findings down, because if you’re in the dark here, like I was today, there are some fundamental Airflow principles you…
Facebook is betting big on its Conversions API to counter Apple’s privacy game. It leaves one wondering why there documentation is so poor. In this blog post, I describe how you can set up proper event deduplication when using both the Facebook pixel and the Conversion API. 💥 This blog…
Sometimes, just sometimes, you really want to get rid of the legend(s) in your Folium Choropleth map. However, there is no method within the Choropleth object to achieve that. Currently, the most straightforward way of removing the legend from your map is by looping over all the layers in the…
In this blog post, we’ll use GeoPandas and Folium in Python to plot a choropleth map of New York’s unemployment rate per borough. Not because it’s extremely interesting, but because it took me a while to get all the elements in order, and I want to help you save some…
There are very few occasions when you really need a hierarchical column index in Pandas. Mostly, you just want to identify a column with a single column name. In this blog post, we’ll learn how to properly flatten a DataFrame with MultiIndex columns. One of the things that annoys me…
Reading CSVs is always a little bit living on the edge, especially when multiple regions are involved in producing them. In this blog post, we’re solving UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte […] in position […]: invalid continuation byte. Important, I’m assuming you got the error when you used Pandas’…