A lot of my colleagues run into problems with their virtual environments in Visual Studio Code. We use venv as environment manager for Python projects and sometimes it feels like VS Code really doesn’t do what we expect of it. Here’s what you need to do to change virtual environments…
One of the main reasons I prefer R(Studio) over Python for doing data science in a context of business intelligence is the ease and stability of the workspace: no virtual environments to maintain since most popular libraries have matured. An update once a year suffices. Yet I acknowledge Python is…
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…