For many Linux newbies, setting up the system to your personal preferences can be a bitch. Although particularly hard in any operating system, doing it in Ubuntu can be challenging if you don’t know how. 1. Steps to take:In the top left: click on activities, type ‘settings’ and go click…
When you come from R, the default for saving to a CSV or an Excel file is that row line numbers are not stored in the file. In Python’s Pandas, that is a whole other story. By default, the indices will be included in your export. Let’s get rid of…
Recently, I jumped on the serverless hype train. I basically sold my soul to Microsoft and Azure, so the possibility of running Python in Azure Functions is pretty damn cool. But since it’s still in preview mode (beta), it has proven to be a nerve-wrecking experience. Here’s some brief instructions…
Werkende in de datasector weet ik hoe gevoelig persoonlijke data kan zijn. Ik weet ook hoe onvoorzichtig daar soms mee wordt omgesprongen. En ik weet hoe uw persoonlijke data tegen u kan gebruikt worden. Volgens artikel 21 van de algemene verordening gegevensbescherming kan u alle persoonlijke data opvragen die organisaties…
According to economic theory, the value created by marketers is that they bridge the information gap between supply and demand. For example: I didn’t know about a smartphone with four (!) camera’s until an ad was pierced through my iris at the local train station. Unless you believe we are…
Few purchases in life come with so much uncertainty as buying a car. As a buyer you have no idea what’s under the hood or if the car will break down in its first hundred kilometers. This problem is also known as the lemons problem after the famous paper by…
Yesterday, Iceland gained a point against Argentina by putting up an icy wall in front of their goal. Nothing adds more spice to a football game than an underdog holding out against a football superpower. Sometimes details are responsible for second tier teams to win their group phase and for…
Me and my fellow (post-)millennials are branded as lazy and narcistic, staring at the blue light of our devices all day. But has anyone considered we entered a job market that was in shambles, have to fear the rise of the robots, and push around bullshit just to get around?…
After reading Steve Lohr’s book ‘Data-Ism‘, it became clear how big data – the recent evolution in computing, cheap computing power, cheap storage, cheap hardware – can make the jump to the tangible world. In his book, Lohr gives the example of a Californian winery that uses shitloads of sensors to track…