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When speed matters, lists aren’t the best. — Speed is always a concern for developers — especially for data-savvy work. The ability to iterate is the basis of all automation and scaling. The first and foremost choice for all of us is a for-loop. It’s excellent, simple, and flexible. …

These "Generally Good Practices" have their downsides. — We should be using more AI solutions by now. But there's this bias issue to consider! We've seen AI models perform differently for underrepresented groups. These issues have been debated heavily in recent years. …

Models that once did well may start to deteriorate. This is how you could stay on course. — There’s only one constant in the universe — CHANGE! Everything you see and sense was a version of itself a moment ago — the data you used to fit your models are no exception. A perfect model over time fails to predict as it used to. It’s not a bug…

You can use Crontab, or you can use this — Running tasks on a schedule is not a rare use case. Pretty much every programmer does it. The standard technique used for scheduling is using Cron jobs. I have no objection to using Cron and still think it’s a stable way. But what if you want a scheduler all in…

How to painlessly monitor file creation, modification, and deletion programmatically — Imagine you work with a client system where they upload files to an FTP folder. We’ve got to process the file as soon as it appears in the folder and push it to a database. A real-time dashboard is accessing the database. …

Write more understandable regex in a friendly declarative syntax — Regex is, without a doubt, the most helpful text processing tool ever invented. It helps us find patterns rather than exact words or phrases in a text. And regex engines are noticeably faster too. Yet, the difficult part is to define a pattern. Experienced programmers may define it on the…

A brief guide to using TOML configuration files in Python projects. — How’d you change the behavior of a software project based on a set of parameters? You could use environment variables. But what if you want complex structures in the parameters? Can you use JSON? Yes, you can. JSON files don’t allow comments. How’d you describe your parameters to readers? The…

Quickly prototype and share web apps with others. Collect feedback on predictions to improve ML model performance. — How can you share your ML model with others? Especially with those who don't have programming skills? We need an interface, don't we? A friendly UI could get the buy-in of everyone and generate a ton more feedback to improve. Previously you needed the help of a web developer to…

Transform your Jupyter notebooks into interactive dashboards — Your data science project would come along great when you have a lean technology stack. Yes, the smaller the stack, the better the project! Jupyter notebooks are inseparable from data scientists’ day-to-day work. Also, most data science projects need an interactive dashboard as well. What if you could convert your…