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John Cook: Data Science and Star Science

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/30/data-science-and-star-science/

I recently got a review copy of Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy. I’m sure the book is especially useful to astronomers, but those of us who are not astronomers use it as a s
Janusworx: #100DaysOfCode, Day 011 – Quick and Dirty Web Page Download

Link: https://janusworx.com/100daysofcode-day-011-quick-and-dirty-web-page-download/

Watched another Corey Schafer video on how to scrape web pages.
Thought that would be handy in my image from a web page download project.
Corey’s an awesome teacher. The video was fun and it taught me
Gaël Varoquaux: Getting a big scientific prize for open-source software

Link: http://gael-varoquaux.info/programming/getting-a-big-scientific-prize-for-open-source-software.html


Note
An important acknowledgement for a different view of doing science:
open, collaborative, and more than a proof of concept.


A few days ago, Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel, Bert
BangPypers: Guidelines for BangPypers Dev Sprints

Link: https://bangalore.python.org.in/blog/2019/12/01/guidelines-for-bangpypers-dev-sprints/

How do you get started on open source programming? How can you contribute to that framework you’ve been itching to add an extra feature to? How do you get guidance and get help pushing your changes to
Spyder IDE: Variable Explorer improvements in Spyder 4

Link: https://www.spyder-ide.org/blog/spyder-variable-explorer/

This blogpost was originally published on the Quansight Labs website.
Spyder 4 will be released very soon with lots of interesting new features that you'll want to check out, reflecting years of effor
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Bob Belderbos

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/12/02/pydev-of-the-week-bob-belderbos/

This week we welcome Bob Belderbos (@bbelderbos) as our PyDev of the Week! Bob is a co-founder of PyBites. Bob has also contributed to Real Python and he’s a Talk Python trainer. You can learn more ab
Kushal Das: IP addresses which tried to break into this server in 2019

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/ip-addresses-which-tried-to-break-into-this-server-in-2019.html


This Friday, I tried to look into the SSH failures on my servers, how
different systems/bots/people tried to break into the servers. I have the logs
from July this month (when I moved into newer serv
Trey Hunner: Cyber Monday Python Sales

Link: https://treyhunner.com/2019/12/cyber-monday-python-sales/

I’m running a sale that ends in 24 hours, but I’m not the only one.
This post is a compilation of the different Cyber Monday deals I’ve found related to Python and Python learning.
Python Morsels, wee
Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 2.2.8 and 2.1.15

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/02/security-releases/

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 2.2.8 and Django 2.1.15. These release addresses the security issue detailed below. We encourage all users of Django t
Made With Mu: A Manga Book on CircuitPython and Mu

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2019/12/02/mu-book.html

I was recently contacted by Mitsuharu Aoyama
(青山光春), a Japanese maker and author. It turns out they’ve written a cool
book about using CircuitPython on the
Circuit Playground Express
with Mu. Not only
Django Weblog: Django 3.0 Released

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/02/django-3-released/

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 3.0.
The release notes cover the raft of new features in detail, but a few highlights are:

Django 3.0 begins our journey to making Django fu
Chris Moffitt: Building a Windows Shortcut with Python

Link: https://pbpython.com/windows-shortcut.html


Introduction
I prefer to use miniconda for installing a lightweight python environment on Windows. I also like to create
and customize Windows shortcuts for launching different conda environments in
Real Python: Pandas: How to Read and Write Files

Link: https://realpython.com/pandas-read-write-files/

Pandas is a powerful and flexible Python package that allows you to work with labeled and time series data. It also provides statistics methods, enables plotting, and more. One crucial feature of Pand
Janusworx: #100DaysOfCode, Day 012 – Data Structures Video Refresher

Link: https://janusworx.com/100daysofcode-day-012-data-structures-video-refresher/

Extremely tight and busy day today.
But still made the time to watch the videos for the next challenge in the course.
As a matter of fact, I think this is what I should do.
If I am in office, I ought
Mahmoud Hashemi: Thanks, 201X!

Link: http://sedimental.org/thanks_201x.html

Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade.

Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade
happens to coincide with my first years of full-time p
PyCharm: PyCharm 2019.3 is out now

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/Em2AaJJrOnA/

Interactive widgets for Jupyter notebooks, MongoDB support, and code assistance for all Python 3.8 features. Download the new version now, or upgrade from within you IDE.

New in PyCharm

Interactive
Python Software Foundation: Giving Tuesday 2019

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/jj7TbspCVNY/giving-tuesday-2019.html


For the first time the PSF is participating in Giving Tuesday! This event is held annually the Tuesday after Thanksgiving - this year on December 3rd, 2019. The global celebration runs for 24 hours a