#230: Python in digital humanities research
You've often heard me talk about Python as a superpower. It can amplify whatever you're interested in or what you have specialized in for your career. This episode is an amazing example of this. You'l...
18 Sep 201957min
#229: Building advanced Pythonic interviews with docassemble
On this episode, we dive into Python for lawyers and a special tool for conducting legal interviews. Imagine you have to collect details for 20,000 participants in a class-action lawsuit. docassemble,...
12 Sep 20191h
#228: Hunting bugs and tech startups with Python
What's it's like building a startup with Python and going through a tech accelerator? You're about to find out. On this episode, you'll meet Elissa Shevinsky from Faster Than Light. They are building ...
4 Sep 201959min
#227: Maintainable data science: Tips for non-developers
Did you come to software development outside of traditional computer science? This is common, and even how I got into programming myself. I think it's especially true for data science and scientific c...
28 Aug 20191h 10min
#226: Building Flask APIs for data scientists
If you're a data scientist, how do you deliver your analysis and your models to the people who need them? A really good option is to serve them over Flask as an API. But there are some special conside...
23 Aug 20191h 9min
#225: Can subinterpreters free us from Python's GIL?
Have you heard that Python is not good for writing concurrent asynchronous code? This is generally a misconception. But there is one class of parallel computing that Python is not good at: CPU bound w...
12 Aug 20191h 10min
#224: 12 lessons from 100 days of web
Back in May of 2018, Bob Belderbos, Julian Sequeira, and I started on what would be a 9-month project. We wanted to create a dedicated, 100 days of code course specifically for Python web developers. ...
5 Aug 20191h 8min
#223: Fun and Easy 2D Games with Python
Have you tried to teach programming to beginners? Python is becoming a top choice for the language, but you still have to have them work with the language and understand core concepts like loops, vari...
30 Jul 20191h 3min
